Security Bulletin: Apache Tomcat as used in IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to security constraint bypass. (CVE-2018-1304, CVE-2018-1305)

Summary

Public disclosed vulnerability from Apache Tomcat

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1305
DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to properly enforce security constraints that are defined by annotations of Servlets in certain cases. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass security constraints to access restricted resources.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/139475&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-1304

DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to properly enforce security constraint definitions that contain a URL pattern of “” (the empty string) that exactly maps to the context root. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass security constraints to access restricted resources.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/139476&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

QRadar / QRM / QVM / QRIF / QNI 7.3.0 to 7.3.1 Patch 4

Remediation/Fixes

QRadar / QRM / QVM / QRIF / QNI 7.3.1 Patch 5

Workarounds and Mitigations

None