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Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to XML External Entity Injection (CVE-2018-1730)

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Summary

The product does not disable external XML Entity Processsing which can lead to information disclosure and denial of service attacks.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1730
Description: IBM QRadar is vulnerable to a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or consume memory resources.
CVSS Base Score: 7.10
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/147709 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score: *Undefined
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
 

Affected Products and Versions

IBM QRadar SIEM 7.2.0 to 7.2.8 Patch 13

IBM QRadar SIEM 7.3.0 to 7.3.1 Patch 6

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

IBM X-Force Ethical Hacking Team: Warren Moynihan, Jonathan Fitz-Gerald, John Zuccato, Rodney Ryan, Chris Shepherd, Dmitriy Beryoza, Vincent Dragnea, Matt McCarty

Change History

30 November 2018: First Publish

*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 Information

Modified date:
03 December 2018

UID

ibm10742741