Security Bulletin: IBM Event Streams is affected by potential data integrity issue (CVE-2020-25649)

Summary

IBM Event Streams is potentially vulnerable to a data integrity issue

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-25649
**DESCRIPTION:**FasterXML Jackson Databind could provide weaker than expected security, caused by not having entity expansion secured properly. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch XML external entity (XXE) attacks to have impact over data integrity.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/192648 for the current score.
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

IBM Event Streams

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2019.4.1

IBM Event Streams

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2019.4.2

IBM Event Streams

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2019.4.3

IBM Event Streams in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

| 10.0.0

IBM Event Streams in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

| 10.1.0

IBM Event Streams in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

| 10.2.0

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 10.3.0 or 10.2.1 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

Upgrade from IBM Event Streams 2019.2.1 and 2019.4.x to the latest Fix Pack.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None