Security Bulletin: IBM Resilient SOAR is Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities

Security Bulletin

Summary

Plexus-utils could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. By sending contents with double quoted strings, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-1000487
DESCRIPTION: Plexus-utils could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. By sending contents with double quoted strings, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/137169 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
Resilient OnPrem	IBM Security SOAR

Remediation/Fixes

Users must upgrade to v38.0 of IBM Resilient in order to obtain a fix for this vulnerability.

You can upgrade the platform by following the instructions in the "Upgrade Procedure" section in the IBM Knowledge Center.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

John Zuccato, Rodney Ryan, Chris Shepherd, Nathan Roane, Kamil Sarbinowski, Vince Dragnea, Troy Fisher and Elaheh Samani from IBM X-Force Ethical Hacking Team.

Change History

28 Aug 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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