Security Bulletin: IBM Security QRadar Offenses Forwarder App for IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to using components with known vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-26159, CVE-2022-40023, CVE-2022-25883)

Summary

The product includes vulnerable components (e.g., framework libraries) that may be identified and exploited with automated tools. The update addresses these issues.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-26159
**DESCRIPTION:**follow-redirects could allow a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks, caused by an open redirect vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted URL to redirect a victim to arbitrary Web sites.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/278622 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-40023
**DESCRIPTION:**Sqlalchemy mako is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service when using the Lexer class to parse. By sending a victim to specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235487 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2022-25883
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js semver package is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the new Range function. By providing specially crafted regex input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258647 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends that customers update their systems promptly.

IBM Security QRadar Offenses Forwarder 1.2.0 addresses these issues.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None