Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring is vulnerable to information disclosure due to its use of Apache Hadoop (CVE-2017-15713)

Security Bulletin

Summary

Vulnerability in Apache Hadoop allows a cluster user to expose private files owned by the user running the MapReduce job history server process. The malicious user can construct a configuration file containing XML directives that reference sensitive files on the MapReduce job history server host. IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring does not use clustering, but it is found that the MapReduce server runs which might allow a malicious insider with access to internal networking to exploit this vulnerability. However being run within a container and a functional user running the service, there are no sensitive files to reference only functional container files.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-15713
DESCRIPTION: Apache Hadoop could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information. By using a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose private files.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/138064 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring	2.0 - 2.3 Fix Pack 4

Remediation/Fixes

To address the vulnerability, IBM strongly recommends you to upgrade IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management to 2.3 Fix Pack 5. For upgrading instructions, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-management/2.3.x?topic=installation-upgrade.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

18 Jul 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:
21 July 2022

Initial Publish date:
18 July 2022

UID

ibm16606309

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Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring is vulnerable to information disclosure due to its use of Apache Hadoop (CVE-2017-15713)