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Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to instantiation of arbitrary objects (CVE-2020-4272)

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Summary

IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to vulnerable to instantiation of arbitrary objects based on user-supplied input.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-4272
DESCRIPTION:   IBM QRadar could allow a remote attacker to include arbitrary files. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted request specify a malicious file from a remote system, which could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable server.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/175898 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

· IBM QRadar 7.3.0 to 7.3.3 Patch 2


Remediation/Fixes

· QRadar / QRM / QVM / QNI 7.4.0 GA (SFS)
· QRadar / QRM / QVM / QRIF / QNI 7.3.3 Patch 3 (SFS)
· QRadar / QRM / QVM / QRIF / QNI 7.3.2 Patch 7(SFS)
· QRadar Incident Forensics 7.4.0 (ISO)
· QRadar Incident Forensics 7.4.0 (SFS)

NOTE: Administrators with QRadar Incident Forensics should be aware that a new ISO and SFS file are published to IBM Fix Central for QRadar Incident Forensics 7.4.0 versions

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

The vulnerability was reported to IBM by Yorick Koster

Change History

06 Apr 2020: 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:
14 April 2020

UID

ibm16189645