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Security Bulletin: The IBM® Engineering Requirements Management DOORS/DWA fixes for Log4j vulnerabilities CVE-2021-4104

Security Bulletin


Summary

Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the deserialization of untrusted data when the attacker has write access to the Log4j configuration. The IBM® Engineering Requirements Management DOORS/DWA product versions 9.6.1.x, 9.7.0.x, 9.7.1.x and 9.7.2.x are vulnerable to this attack, it has been addressed in this bulletin.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-4104
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the deserialization of untrusted data when the attacker has write access to the Log4j configuration. If the deployed application is configured to use JMSAppender, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/215048 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
DOORS Web Access All
IBM® Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Family   All

Remediation/Fixes

IBM® strongly recommends addressing the vulnerabilities now by taking the actions documented in this bulletin.

  • For The IBM® Engineering Requirements Management DOORS/DWA product versions 9.7.x, install the fix pack 9.7.2.6.
  • For The IBM® Engineering Requirements Management DOORS/DWA product versions 9.6.x, install the fix pack 9.6.1.13.

You can download the fix pack for 9.7.2.6 and 9.6.1.13 from Fix Central.

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

Acknowledgement

Change History

12 Sep 2022: 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:
30 September 2022

UID

ibm16825095

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