Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Incident Forensics, as found in IBM QRadar SIEM, is vulnerable to remote code execution. (CVE-2017-1721)

Summary

IBM QRadar Incident Forensics uses insecure functions such as eval that execute code from a string and as such is vulnerable to remote code execution attacks.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-1721**
DESCRIPTION:** IBM QRadar could allow an unauthenticated user to execute code remotely with lower level privileges under unusual circumstances.
CVSS Base Score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134810&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM QRadar SIEM 7.3.0 to 7.3.0 Patch 7

IBM QRadar SIEM 7.2.8 to 7.2.8 Patch 11

Remediation/Fixes

QRadar / QRM / QVM / QRIF / QNI 7.3.1 Patch 3

QRadar / QRM / QVM / QRIF / QNI 7.2.8 Patch 12

Workarounds and Mitigations

None