What is the CVSS score of CVE-2019-4481?

CVE-2019-4481 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (Critical). CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. EPSS exploitation probability: 2.0%.

Emptoris Spend Analysis CVE-2019-4481

CRITICAL

SQL Injection (CWE-89)

2019-08-20 psirt@us.ibm.com

SQLi IBM Emptoris Spend Analysis Emptoris Contract Management

9.8

CVSS 3.1 · NVD

Severity by source

NVD PRIMARY

9.8 CRITICAL

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.

CVSS VectorNVD

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Lifecycle Timeline

CVE Published

Aug 20, 2019 - 19:15 nvd

CRITICAL 9.8

DescriptionNVD

IBM Contract Management 10.1.0 through 10.1.3 and IBM Emptoris Spend Analysis 10.1.0 through 10.1.3 is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements, which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database. IBM X-Force ID: 164064.

AnalysisAI

IBM Contract Management 10.1.0 through 10.1.3 and IBM Emptoris Spend Analysis 10.1.0 through 10.1.3 is vulnerable to SQL injection. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Technical ContextAI

This vulnerability is classified as SQL Injection (CWE-89), which allows attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands against the database. IBM Contract Management 10.1.0 through 10.1.3 and IBM Emptoris Spend Analysis 10.1.0 through 10.1.3 is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements, which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database. IBM X-Force ID: 164064. Affected products include: Ibm Emptoris Contract Management, Ibm Emptoris Spend Analysis. Version information: through 10.1.3.

RemediationAI

No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Use parameterized queries/prepared statements. Never concatenate user input into SQL. Apply least-privilege database permissions.