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Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar SIEM contains vulnerable components and libraries. (CVE-2016-5007, CVE-2016-9878)

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Summary

The product includes vulnerable components (e.g., framework libraries) that may be identified and exploited with automated tools.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-5007
DESCRIPTION:
 Pivotal Spring Security and Spring Framework could provide weaker than expected security, caused by the difference in the strictness of the pattern matching mechanisms. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/126679 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2016-9878
DESCRIPTION:
 Pivotal Spring Framework could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system , caused by improper validation of user-supplied paths. An attacker could send a specially-crafted request to the ResourceServlet containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to view arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120241 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM QRadar 7.3.0 to 7.3.1 Patch 2

IBM QRadar 7.2.0 to 7.2.8 Patch 11

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

IBM X-Force Ethical Hacking Team: Ron Craig, Warren Moynihan, Jonathan Fitz-Gerald, John Zuccato, Rodney Ryan, Chris Shepherd, Dmitriy Beryoza

Change History

24 April 2018: First Publish

*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 Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg22015813