Security Bulletin: IBM Event Streams is vulnerable to a Broken Access Control due to the follow-redirects component ( CVE-2024-28849).

Summary

IBM Event Streams is vulnerable to a Broken Access Control due to the Node.js follow-redirects module. follow-redirects provides request and get methods that behave identically to those found on the native http and https modules.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-28849
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js follow-redirects module could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the leakage of credentials when clearing authorization header during cross-domain redirect, but keeping the proxy-authentication header. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain credentials and other sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285690 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading

Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 11.4.0 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None