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Security Bulletin: IBM Event Streams is affected by a Redis vulnerability (CVE-2020-14147)

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Event Streams is affected by a Redis vulnerability utlised by the UI component

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-14147
DESCRIPTION:   Redis is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow in the getnum function in lua_struct.c in Redis. By sending a specially crafted command with a large number, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a stack-based buffer overflow, leading a denial of service..
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/183518 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Event Streams10.0.0
IBM Event StreamsCDR

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade IBM Event Streams 10.0.0 in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration by downloading IBM Event Streams 10.1.0 in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration 2020.3.1 from IBM Entitled Registry

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

18 Sep 2020: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
26 September 2020

UID

ibm16338475

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