Security Bulletin: IBM Security Verify Information Queue displays the Grafana signing key when setting up the logs stack (CVE-2021-20412)

Summary

IBM Security Verify Information Queue (ISIQ) offers an optional logs stack to demonstrate logging and monitoring. Among the stack’s components is a Grafana dashboard. The initialization file for Grafana contains a hard-coded signing key. As of ISIQ v10.0.0, this signing key has been removed from the file.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-20412
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Security Verify Information Queue contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key, which it uses for its own inbound authentication, outbound communication to external components, or encryption of internal data.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196192 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Download and install the latest IBM Security Verify Information Queue images (tagged at 10.0.0 or greater) from the Docker Hub repository. The instructions for accessing and deploying the images can be found on the ISIQ starter kit page: <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-security-information-queue-starter-kit&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None