Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2018-1730 & CVE-2017-1622 – IBM QRadar Risk Manager / SIEM / Incident Forensics Multiple Vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM QRadar Risk Manager, SIEM and Incident Forensics may lead to Denial of Service, Exposure of sensitive information and Spoofing.

IMPACT:  NORMAL

PUBLISH DATE:  04-Dec-2018

OVERVIEW

IBM QRadar Risk Manager, IBM QRadar SIEM, and IBM QRadar Incident Forensics are found to contain vulnerabilities which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks, disclose sensitive information, and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

ANALYSIS

While parsing XML entities, an error occurs which can be exploited to disclose otherwise restricted information. It may also induce a Denial of Service condition via a specially crafted XML document that includes external entity references.

A Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack can be launched by exploiting an error that occurs while handling certificates. This way, an attacker may proceed to conduct successful spoofing attacks.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 7.2.0 through 7.2.8 Patch 13.

AFFECTED PRODUCTS

• IBM Security QRadar SIEM 7.x
• IBM Security QRadar Incident Forensics 7.2.x
• IBM Security QRadar Risk Manager 7.x

UPDATES

Update affected versions to version 7.2.8 Patch 14.

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