CWE-435

Improper Interaction Between Multiple Correctly-Behaving Entities

An interaction error occurs when two entities have correct behavior when running independently of each other, but when they are integrated as components in a larger system or process, they introduce incorrect behaviors that may cause resultant weaknesses.

CVE-2023-43052 (GCVE-0-2023-43052)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-07 16:55
Modified
2025-08-16 23:43
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-435 - Improper Interaction Between Multiple Correctly-Behaving Entities
Summary
IBM Control Center 6.2.1 through 6.3.1 is vulnerable to an external service interaction attack, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to induce the application to perform server-side DNS lookups or HTTP requests to arbitrary domain names. By submitting suitable payloads, an attacker can cause the application server to attack other systems that it can interact with.
References
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7185102vendor-advisory, patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Control Center Version: 6.2.1   ≤ 6.3.1
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:control_center:6.2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:control_center:6.3.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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