Security Bulletin: Apache Log4j Vulnerability Affects IBM Sterling Control Center (CVE-2021-45105)

Summary

Apache Log4j Vulnerability Affects IBM Sterling Control Center (CVE-2021-45105). Customers are encourages to take action and apply the fix below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-45105
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Log4j is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to protect from uncontrolled recursion from self-referential lookups. A remote attacker with control over Thread Context Map (MDC) input data could craft malicious input data that contains a recursive lookup to cause a StackOverflowError that will terminate the process. Note: The vulnerability is also called LOG4J2-3230.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/215647 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Product

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VRMF

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iFix

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Remediation

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IBM Sterling Control Center

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6.2.1.0.

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iFix04

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Fix Central - 6.2.1.0

IBM Sterling Control Center

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6.2.0.0

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iFix14

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Fix Central - 6.2.0.0

IBM Sterling Control Center

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6.1.3.0

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iFix10

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Fix Central - 6.1.3.0

Workarounds and Mitigations

None