Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM QRadar Incident Forensics uses insecure functions such as eval that execute code from a string and as such is vulnerable to remote code execution attacks.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2017-1721
DESCRIPTION: IBM QRadar could allow an unauthenticated user to execute code remotely with lower level privileges under unusual circumstances.
CVSS Base Score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134810 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
IBM QRadar SIEM 7.3.0 to 7.3.0 Patch 7
IBM QRadar SIEM 7.2.8 to 7.2.8 Patch 11
Remediation/Fixes
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
The vulnerability was reported to IBM by Henri Salo
Change History
24 April 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.
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Document Information
Modified date:
16 June 2018
UID
swg22015799