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Security Bulletin: Automation Assets in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is vulnerable to denial of service due to Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-45105)

Security Bulletin


Summary

Automation Assets in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is vulnerable to CVE-2021-45105 with details below.

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)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
Automation Assets in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I)2021.2.1
2021.4.1

Remediation/Fixes

Automation Assets version 2021.2.1 or 2021.4.1 in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
Upgrade Automation Assets to 2021.4.1-2 using the Operator upgrade process described in the IBM Documentation

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

17 Jan 2022: 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:
17 January 2022

UID

ibm16541288