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Security Bulletin: Ansible vulnerability affects IBM Elastic Storage System (CVE-2021-3583)

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Summary

IBM Elastic Storage System is shipped with ansible, for which a fix is available for a security vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-3583
DESCRIPTION:   Ansible could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by template injection in user's controller. By sending a specially-crafted template, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/209925 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Elastic Storage System6.0.0 - 6.0.2.3
IBM Elastic Storage System6.1.0 - 6.1.2.1

Remediation/Fixes

IBM recommends that you fix this vulnerability by upgrading affected versions of IBM Elastic Storage System 3000, 3200 and 5000 to the following code levels or higher:

V6.0.2.4

https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Elastic+Storage+Server+(ESS)&release=6.0.0&platform=All&function=all

V6.1.2.2

https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Elastic+Storage+Server+(ESS)&release=6.1.0&platform=All&function=all

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 Feb 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.

Disclaimer

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
28 February 2022

Initial Publish date:
18 February 2022

UID

ibm16560038

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