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Security Bulletin: Netcool Operations Insight - Cloud Native Event Analytics is affected by an Apache Kafka vulnerability (CVE-2018-17196)

Security Bulletin


Summary

Netcool Operations Insight - Cloud Native Event Analytics has addressed the following vulnerability in Apache Kafka

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2018-17196
DESCRIPTION:   In Apache Kafka versions between 0.11.0.0 and 2.1.0, it is possible to manually craft a Produce request which bypasses transaction/idempotent ACL validation. Only authenticated clients with Write permission on the respective topics are able to exploit this vulnerability. Users should upgrade to 2.1.1 or later where this vulnerability has been fixed.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/163622 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
Netcool Operations Insight - Cloud Native Event Analytics1.6.0

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade Operations Insight to 1.6.0.1

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSTPTP_1.6.0/com.ibm.netcool_ops.doc/soc/integration/concept/int_upgr_opsmg-icp.html

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

27 Nov 2019: 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:
20 December 2019

UID

ibm11119195

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