Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by an information leak vulnerability within Kafka (CVE-2021-38153)

Summary

IBM Security Guardium uses Apache Kafka in deployed agents to handle event streaming. IBM Security Guardium has fixed this vulnerability by upgrading to kafka-3.0.0-0.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-38153
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Kafka could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a timing attack flaw due to the use of “Arrays.equals” to validate a password or key. By utilizing brute-force attack techniques, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain credentials information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/209762 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly.

http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p270_Bundle_Feb-24-2022,SqlGuard_11.0p360_Bundle_Mar-24-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

IBM Security Guardium| 11.3| http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p360_Bundle_Mar-24-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium| 11.4| http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p440_Bundle_Jun-03-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

Workarounds and Mitigations

None