Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Redis affects IBM Event Streams (CVE-2021-32762)

Summary

There is a vulnerability in the Redis open source database. The database is used by IBM Event Streams.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-32762
**DESCRIPTION:**Redis could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in the redis-cli command line tool and redis-sentinel service. By parsing specially-crafted large multi-bulk network replies, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/210729 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Event Streams (Helm-based releases)

• Download the 2019.4.5 release from IBM Fix Central.
• Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 2019.4.5 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

IBM Event Streams (Continuous Delivery)

• Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 10.5.0 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

IBM Event Streams (Extended Update Support)

• Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 10.2.1 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None