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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution due to Apache log4j (CVE-2021-4104)

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Summary

IBM Security Guardium has resolved CVE-2021-4104 with an appliance patch. Apache log4j is used as part of its logging infrastructure. The patch removes log4j 1.x from the Guardium system and replaces it with log4j2 V2.17.1.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-4104
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the deserialization of untrusted data when the attacker has write access to the Log4j configuration. If the deployed application is configured to use JMSAppender, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/215048 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Security Guardium10.5
IBM Security Guardium10.6
IBM Security Guardium11.0
IBM Security Guardium11.1
IBM Security Guardium11.2
IBM Security Guardium11.3
IBM Security Guardium11.4

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by applying the applicable patch.

 ProductVersions Fix
IBM Security Guardium10.5http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=10.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p550_Bundle_Mar-27-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium10.6

http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=10.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p690_Bundle_Mar-09-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

IBM Security Guardium11.0http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p45_Bundle_May-03-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium11.1http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p160_Bundle_Mar-23-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium11.2

http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p270_Bundle_Feb-24-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

IBM Security Guardium11.3

http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p360_Bundle_Mar-24-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

IBM Security Guardium11.4

http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p422_CVE-2021-4104-Log4j-2.17.1&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

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

Acknowledgement

Change History

15 Mar 2022: Initial Publication
18 Mar 2022: Second Publication
13 April 2022: Third Publication
11 May 2022: Fourth 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:
11 May 2022

UID

ibm16563561

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