Security Bulletin: IBM Event Streams is affected by jackson-databind vulnerabilities

Summary

IBM Event Streams has addressed the following vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2018-1000873
DESCRIPTION: FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation by the nanoseconds time value field. By persuading a victim to deserialize specially-crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/154804&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2018-19360 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified error with failure to block the axis2-transport-jms class from polymorphic deserialization in FasterXML jackson-databind has an unknown impact and attack vector.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/155091&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-19361 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified error with failure to block the openjpa class from polymorphic deserialization in FasterXML jackson-databind has an unknown impact and attack vector.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/155092&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-19362 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified error with failure to block the jboss-common-core class from polymorphic deserialization in FasterXML jackson-databind has an unknown impact and attack vector.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/155093&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14719
Description: FasterXML jackson-databind could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the failure to block the blaze-ds-opt and blaze-ds-core classes from polymorphic deserialization. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/155138&gt; for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14718
Description: FasterXML jackson-databind could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the failure to block the slf4j-ext class from polymorphic deserialization. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/155139&gt; for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14720
Description: FasterXML jackson-databind could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an XML external entity (XXE) error when processing XML data by JDK classes. By sending a specially-crafted XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/155137&gt; for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14721
Description: FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to server-side request forgery, caused by the failure to block the axis2-jaxws class from polymorphic deserialization. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive data.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/155136&gt; for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Event Streams 2018.3.0

IBM Event Streams 2018.3.1

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 2019.1.1 which is available from Passport Advantage.