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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Log4j affects IBM Elastic Storage System (CVE-2021-4104)

Security Bulletin


Summary

A vulnerability in Apache Log4j could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system. This vulnerability may affect IBM Elastic Storage System due to its use of Log4j for logging and this fix upgrades to Apache Log4j 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 Elastic Storage System 6.0.0 - 6.0.2.4
IBM Elastic Storage System 5.3.0 - 5.3.7.4

Remediation/Fixes

Contact IBM Support for your affected versions of ESS 3000, ESS 3200 and ESS 5000 to obtain and apply an efix for your level of code:
Products Remediation
IBM Elastic Storage System

V6.0.0.0 - V6.0.2.4

 For IBM Support, reference APAR IJ38352

IBM Elastic Storage System

V5.3.0 - V5.3.7.4

For IBM Support, reference APAR IJ38352
If you cannot apply the latest level of service, contact IBM Service.

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

11 Mar 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:
06 July 2022

Initial Publish date:
11 March 2022

UID

ibm16565395

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