Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to instantiation of arbitrary objects (CVE-2020-4272)

Summary

IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to vulnerable to instantiation of arbitrary objects based on user-supplied input.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-4272
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM QRadar could allow a remote attacker to include arbitrary files. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted request specify a malicious file from a remote system, which could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable server.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/175898 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

· IBM QRadar 7.3.0 to 7.3.3 Patch 2

Remediation/Fixes

· QRadar / QRM / QVM / QNI 7.4.0 GA (SFS)
· QRadar / QRM / QVM / QRIF / QNI 7.3.3 Patch 3 (SFS)
· QRadar / QRM / QVM / QRIF / QNI 7.3.2 Patch 7(SFS)
· QRadar Incident Forensics 7.4.0 (ISO)
· QRadar Incident Forensics 7.4.0 (SFS)

NOTE: Administrators with QRadar Incident Forensics should be aware that a new ISO and SFS file are published to IBM Fix Central for QRadar Incident Forensics 7.4.0 versions

Workarounds and Mitigations

None