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Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data (CVE-2020-4888)

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-4888
DESCRIPTION:   IBM QRadar SIEM could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by insecure deserialization of user-supplied content by the Java deserialization function. By sending a malicious serialized Java object, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system
CVSS Base score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/190912 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM QRadar SIEM 7.4.0 to 7.4.2 Patch 1

IBM QRadar SIEM 7.3.0 to 7.3.3 Patch 7

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

The vulnerability was reported to IBM by Jang Nguyen

Change History

27 Jan 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.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 February 2021

UID

ibm16409306