Security Bulletin: Netcool Operations Insight - Cloud Native Event Analytics is affected by an Apache Kafka vulnerability (CVE-2018-17196)

Summary

Netcool Operations Insight - Cloud Native Event Analytics has addressed the following vulnerability in Apache Kafka

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2018-17196
**DESCRIPTION:**In Apache Kafka versions between 0.11.0.0 and 2.1.0, it is possible to manually craft a Produce request which bypasses transaction/idempotent ACL validation. Only authenticated clients with Write permission on the respective topics are able to exploit this vulnerability. Users should upgrade to 2.1.1 or later where this vulnerability has been fixed.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/163622 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade Operations Insight to 1.6.0.1

<https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSTPTP_1.6.0/com.ibm.netcool_ops.doc/soc/integration/concept/int_upgr_opsmg-icp.html&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None