SB2025080814 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM QRadar SIEM
Published: August 8, 2025 Updated: August 29, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 20 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Protection mechanism failure (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-32462)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient implementation of security measures when running sudo with -h (--host) option. If the current configuration provides access to users based on the host they are allowed to execute commands, a local user can bypass such a restriction by providing the hostname via the "-h" option they are allowed to execute commands. The vulnerability affects systems that use a common sudoers file that is distributed to multiple machines or when LDAP-based sudoers (including SSSD) is used.
2) Untrusted search path (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-4802)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to usage of an untrusted LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. A local user can use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to point to a malicious binary and execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges.
The vulnerability affects statically linked setuid binaries that call dlopen (including internal dlopen calls after setlocale or calls to NSS functions such as getaddrinfo).
3) Improper access control (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-6020)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper access restrictions within the pam_namespace module when handling user-controlled paths. A local user can use specially crafted symlinks and race conditions to execute arbitrary code as root.
4) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-12133)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources processing a large number of SEQUENCE OF or SET OF elements in a certificate. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
5) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-4517)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to input validation error in the tarfile module when extracting files from an archive with filter="data". A remote attacker can pass specially crafted archive to the application and write files to arbitrary locations on the system outside the extraction directory.
6) Expected behavior violation (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-4435)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to change expected behavior.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when using a TarFile.errorlevel = 0 and extracting with a filter the documented behavior. A remote attacker can force the application to extract files that were meant to be skipped.
7) Link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-4330)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to an insecure link following issue when extracting data from an archive in the tarfile module. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted archive to the application and overwrite arbitrary files outside the destination directory.
8) Link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-4138)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to an insecure link following issue when extracting data from an archive in the tarfile module. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted archive to the application and overwrite arbitrary files outside the destination directory during extraction with filter="data"..
9) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-12718)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to modify arbitrary files on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to input validation error in the tarfile module. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted archive to the application and modify some file metadata (e.g. last modified) with filter="data" or file permissions (chmod) with filter="tar" of files outside the extraction directory.
10) Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-27818)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insecure input validation when processing serialized data. A remote user can set the sasl.jaas.config property for connector's Kafka clients to 'com.sun.security.auth.module.LdapLoginModule' through various override properties (producer.override.sasl.jaas.config, consumer.override.sasl.jaas.config, or admin.override.sasl.jaas.config). This configuration enables the server to connect to an attacker's LDAP server and deserialize the LDAP response, potentially leading to the execution of java deserialization gadget chains on the Kafka connect server.
11) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-27817)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in Apache Kafka Client. The application accepts configuration data for setting the SASL/OAUTHBEARER connection with the brokers, including "sasl.oauthbearer.token.endpoint.url" and "sasl.oauthbearer.jwks.endpoint.url". A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.
12) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-21764)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the ndisc_alloc_skb() function in net/ipv6/ndisc.c. A local user can escalate privileges on the system.
13) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-53064)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to NULL pointer dereference within the idpf_init_hard_reset() function in drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c. A local user can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
14) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-50301)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an out-of-bounds read error within the security/keys/keyring.c. A local user can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
15) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-48919)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the cifs_do_mount() function in fs/cifs/cifsfs.c. A local user can escalate privileges on the system.
16) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-31141)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges within the application.
The vulnerability exists due to the way Apache Kafka Clients handles custom configurations. A remote user with access to REST API can read arbitrary files and variables on the system and escalate their privileges filesystem/environment access.
17) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-47554)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling untrusted input passed to the org.apache.commons.io.input.XmlStreamReader class. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
18) Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-3576)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to usage of RC4-HMAC-MD algorithm for GSSAPI-protected messages. A remote attacker can perform MitM attack.
19) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-12243)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to libtasn1 does not properly control consumption of internal resources when decoding certain DER-encoded certificate data. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
20) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-40403)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in libxslt. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.
Remediation
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