Security Bulletin: A dependency of ElasticSearch as used in IBM® Resilient SOAR is vulnerable to Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228).

Summary

Apache Log4j, a dependency of ElasticSearch as used in IBM® Resilient SOAR, is vulnerable to information disclosure. Elastic Search is used by IBM® Resilient SOAR for text search. This bulletin provides a mitigation for the vulnerability. Customers are encouraged to update their systems now to address the vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-44228
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the failure to protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints by JNDI features. By sending a specially crafted code string, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to load arbitrary Java code on the server and take complete control of the system. Note: The vulnerability is also called Log4Shell or LogJam.
CVSS Base score: 10
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/214921 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM® Resilient SOAR v40

IBM® Resilient SOAR v41

IBM® Resilient SOAR v42

IBM® Resilient SOAR v43

If you are unable to update your IBM Security SOAR to one of the above versions please see the Workarounds and Mitigations below.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None