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Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM Event Streams is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution on the system. Apache Avro is commonly used in event streams like Apache Kafka to serialize and deserialize event data, providing a structured, efficient, and schema-based format for transmitting messages between producers and consumers.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2024-47561
DESCRIPTION: Apache Avro could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw in schema parsing in the Java SDK. By sending a specially crafted request using the "java-class" attribute, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CWE: CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
IBM Event Streams | 10.0.0-11.5.0 |
Remediation/Fixes
IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading
Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 11.5.1 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
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Acknowledgement
Change History
30 Jan 2025: 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
More support for:
IBM Event Automation
Software version:
All
Operating system(s):
RedHat OpenShift, Linux
Document number:
7181992
Modified date:
30 January 2025
UID
ibm17181992
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