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Security Bulletin: Apache Log4j vulnerabilities impacts IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services (CVE-2021-45105, CVE-2021-45046)

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Summary

There are denial of service and remote code execution vulnerabilities in the Apache Log4j open source library is used by IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services for logging. The fix includes Apache Log4j 2.17.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-45105
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Log4j is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to protect from uncontrolled recursion from self-referential lookups. A remote attacker with control over Thread Context Map (MDC) input data could craft malicious input data that contains a recursive lookup to cause a StackOverflowError that will terminate the process. Note: The vulnerability is also called LOG4J2-3230.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/215647 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-45046
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Log4j could result in remote code execution, caused by an incomplete fix of CVE-2021-44228 in certain non-default configurations. When the logging configuration uses a non-default Pattern Layout with a Context Lookup, an attacker with control over Thread Context Map (MDC) input data can craft malicious input data using a JNDI Lookup pattern to leak sensitive information and remote code execution in some environments and local code execution in all environments.
CVSS Base score: 9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/215195 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services6.1.0
IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services6.2.0

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerabilities now by applying the applicable fix below.

Affected Product(s)Version(s)Remediation/Fix
IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services6.1.0Apply 6.1.0.9, available  on Fix Central
IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services6.2.0Apply 6.2.0.3, available  on Fix Central

 

 

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

23 Dec 2021: 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:
23 December 2021

UID

ibm16537002