Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Incident Forensics is vulnerable to Path Traversal (CVE-2018-1649)

Summary

The product processes file paths in a download or upload functionality unsafely. This allows access to arbitrary files on the system.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1649
**Description:**IBM QRadar Incident Forensics could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to view arbitrary files on the system.
**CVSS Base Score:**7.70
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/144655&gt; for the current score
**CVSS Environmental Score:***Undefined
**CVSS Vector:**CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products and Versions

IBM QRadar Incident Forensics 7.3.0 to 7.3.1 Patch 4

IBM QRadar Incident Forensics 7.2.0 to 7.2.8 Patch 13

Remediation/Fixes

QRadar / QRM / QVM / QRIF / QNI 7.3.1 Patch 5

QRadar / QRM / QVM / QRIF / QNI 7.2.8 Patch 13 Interim Fix 1

Workarounds and Mitigations

None