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Security Bulletin: The IBM QRadar SIEM Amazon Web Services protocol is vulnerable to stack overflow due to improper input validation (CVE-2024-7254)

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Summary

protobuf java is used by IBM QRadar SIEM Amazon Web Services protocol, and has known vulnerabilities. The issues have been addressed in an update.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2024-7254
DESCRIPTION:   Any project that parses untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of nested groups / series of SGROUP tags can corrupted by exceeding the stack limit i.e. StackOverflow. Parsing nested groups as unknown fields with DiscardUnknownFieldsParser or Java Protobuf Lite parser, or against Protobuf map fields, creates unbounded recursions that can be abused by an attacker.
CWE:   CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   7.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM QRadar SIEM7.5 - 7.5.0 UP10

Remediation/Fixes

ProductVersionFix
IBM QRadar SIEM 7.5.07.5.0 QRadar Protocol Amazon Web Services

 

Workarounds and Mitigations


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Acknowledgement

Change History

08 Jan 2025: Initial Publication

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Document Location

Worldwide


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Document Information

More support for:
IBM Security QRadar SIEM

Software version:
7.5

Operating system(s):
Linux

Document number:
7180462

Modified date:
28 January 2025

UID

ibm17180462

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