Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Incident Forensics is vulnerable to authentication bypass. (CVE-2018-1612)

Summary

IBM QRadar Incident Forensics could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1612**
DESCRIPTION:** IBM QRadar Incident Forensics could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication and obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 5.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/144164&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM QRadar SIEM 7.2.0 - 7.2.8 Patch 11

IBM QRadar SIEM 7.3.0 - 7.3.1 Patch 4

Remediation/Fixes

QRadar / QRM / QVM / QRIF / QNI 7.2.8 Patch 12
QRadar / QRM / QVM / QRIF / QNI 7.3.1 Patch 4 Interim Fix 1

Workarounds and Mitigations

The following technical note provides a mitigation for this vulnerability.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22016816