SB2018053002 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Qradar SIEM
Published: May 30, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018053002
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Command injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1418)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication, gain elevated privileges and execute arbitrary commands on the target system.The weakness exists due to a built-in application to perform forensic analysis on certain files is disabled in the free Community Edition, but the code is still there. A remote attacker can abuse both components of the forensics application (servlet running in Java, and the main web application running PHP), bypass authentication, write a file to disk, and execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.