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Security Bulletin: IBM Content Navigator container deployments are vulnerable to a remote execution vulnerability (Log4j)

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Summary

IBM Content Navigator container deployments are vulnerable to a remote execution vulnerability. IBM Content Navigator has addressed the vulnerability as described below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-44228
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the failure to protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints by JNDI features. By sending a specially crafted code string, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to load arbitrary Java code on the server and take complete control of the system. Note: The vulnerability is also called Log4Shell or LogJam.
CVSS Base score: 10
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/214921 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Content Navigator3.0 Continuous Delivery

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading.

ProductVMRFRemediation / First Fix
IBM Content Navigator3.0 Continuous DeliveryIBM Content Navigator container - ICN 3.0.9 LA 008, ICN 3.0.10 LA 004 / Task Manager container - TM 3.0.10 LA004, TM 3.0.9 LA008, 3.0.7 TM LA101.

 

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

 

For more information about how this vulnerability affects IBM Content Navigator, see this technote: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6526164

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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

Acknowledgement

Change History

17 Dec 2021: 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:
17 December 2021

UID

ibm16527946

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