Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Assistant App for IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to using components with known vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-39338, CVE-2024-4068, CVE-2021-23727)

Summary

The product includes vulnerable components (e.g., framework libraries) that may be identified and exploited with automated tools. The update addresses these issues.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-39338
**DESCRIPTION:**Axios is vulnerable to server-side request forgery, caused by a flaw with requests for path relative URLs get processed as protocol relative URLs. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct SSRF attack.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/350874 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)

CVEID:CVE-2024-4068
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js braces module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to limit the number of characters it can handle. leading to a memory exhaustion in lib/parse.js. By sending imbalanced braces as input, the parsing will enter a loop causing the JavaScript heap limit to be reached, and the program will crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/290675 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)

CVEID:CVE-2021-23727
**DESCRIPTION:**Celery could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system. By sending a specially-crafted messages and metadata, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216459 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends that customers update their systems promptly.

IBM QRadar Assistant 3.8.0 addresses these issues.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None