Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Log4j affects Collaboration and Deployment Services (CVE-2021-44228)

Summary

There is a vulnerability in the Apache Log4j open source library which is used by Collaboration and Deployment Services for logging of messages and traces. This issue has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-44228
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the failure to protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints by JNDI features. By sending a specially crafted code string, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to load arbitrary Java code on the server and take complete control of the system. Note: The vulnerability is also called Log4Shell or LogJam.
CVSS Base score: 10
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/214921 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by installing the fix listed.

Product

| VRMF| APAR| Remediation/First Fix
—|—|—|—
SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services|

8.3.0.0

|

PH42779

|

8.3.0.0-IM-SCaDS-IF004

**The fix needs to be applied to these components: **

SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Repository Server

SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Remote Scoring Server

SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Remote Process Server

SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Deployment Manager

Workarounds and Mitigations

None