Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics is vulnerable to components with known vulnerabilities

Summary

IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics contains vulnerable packages/components and that may be identified and potentially exploited. The packages have been updated in the latest release and the vulnerabilities identified in the CVEs have been addressed. Please follow the instructions in the Remediation/Fixes section below to update to the latest version of IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-3171
**DESCRIPTION:**protobuf-java core and lite are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the parsing procedure for binary and text format data. By sending non-repeated embedded messages with repeated or unknown fields, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause long garbage collection pauses.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238394 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-41881
**DESCRIPTION:**Netty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a StackOverflowError in HAProxyMessageDecoder. By sending a specially-crafted message, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an infinite recursion, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/242087 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-40152
**DESCRIPTION:**XStream is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow. By sending a specially-crafted XML data, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to causes the parser to crash, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236355 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-31160
**DESCRIPTION:**jQuery UI is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the check-box-radio widget. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted URL to execute script in a victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim’s cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/231462 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2017-7525
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Struts could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a deserialization flaw within the Jackson JSON library in the readValue method of the ObjectMapper. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134639 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-25168
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Hadoop could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by improper input file name validation by the FileUtil.unTar(File, File) API. By sending specially-crafted arguments, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/232807 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-3509
**DESCRIPTION:**protobuf-java core and lite are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the parsing procedure for textformat data. By sending non-repeated embedded messages with repeated or unknown fields, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause long garbage collection pauses.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239915 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-41854
**DESCRIPTION:**snakeYAML is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted YAML content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240890 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-38752
**DESCRIPTION:**SnakeYAML is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-overflow in parsing YAML files. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, 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/235310 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-2022-1471
**DESCRIPTION:**SnakeYaml could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe deserialization in the Constructor class. By using a specially-crafted yaml content, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241118 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2021-37533
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Commons Net could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an issue with the FTP client trusts the host from PASV response by default. By persuading a victim to connect to specially-crafted server, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain information about services running on the private network, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241253 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-42004
**DESCRIPTION:**FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a lack of a check in in the BeanDeserializer._deserializeFromArray function. By sending a specially-crafted request using deeply nested arrays, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available resources.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237660 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-42003
**DESCRIPTION:**FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a lack of a check in the primitive value deserializers when the UNWRAP_SINGLE_VALUE_ARRAYS feature is enabled. By sending a specially-crafted request using deep wrapper array nesting, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available resources.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237662 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly.

Please follow this link to update to version 4.1.12

Workarounds and Mitigations

None