Security Bulletin: IBM Event Streams is vulnerable to a cross-site request forgery due to the Axios component (CVE-2023-45857).

Summary

IBM Event Streams is vulnerable to XSS vulnerability due to Axios component . Axios is a promise-based HTTP library that lets developers make requests to either their own or a third-party server to fetch data.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-45857
**DESCRIPTION:**Axios is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. By inserting the X-XSRF-TOKEN header using the secret XSRF-TOKEN cookie value in all requests to any server when the XSRF-TOKEN0 cookie is available, and the withCredentials setting is turned on, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform cross-site scripting attacks, Web cache poisoning, and other malicious activities.
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/270574 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading

IBM Event Streams (Continuous Delivery)

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None