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Security Bulletin: Apache Commons as used by IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to denial of service (CVE-2021-35515, CVE-2021-35516, CVE-2021-36090, CVE-2021-35517)

Description

## Summary Apache Commons as used by IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to denial of service. IBM has addressed the relevant CVEs. ## Vulnerability Details ** CVEID: **[CVE-2021-35515](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-35515>) ** DESCRIPTION: **Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop flaw in the construction of the list of codecs that decompress an entry. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted 7Z archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress' sevenz package. CVSS Base score: 5.5 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205304](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205304>) for the current score. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) ** CVEID: **[CVE-2021-35516](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-35516>) ** DESCRIPTION: **Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-memory error when large amounts of memory are allocated. By reading a specially-crafted 7Z archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress' sevenz package. CVSS Base score: 7.5 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205306](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205306>) 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-2021-36090](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-36090>) ** DESCRIPTION: **Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-memory error when large amounts of memory are allocated. By reading a specially-crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress' zip package. CVSS Base score: 7.5 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205310](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205310>) 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-2021-35517](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-35517>) ** DESCRIPTION: **Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out of memory error when allocating large amounts of memory. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TAR archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress' tar package. CVSS Base score: 5.5 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205307](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205307>) for the current score. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) ## Affected Products and Versions **Affected Product(s)**| **Version(s)** ---|--- IBM QRadar SIEM v7.3| All BlueCoatWSSRESTAPI versions before 7.3.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-BlueCoatWSSRESTAPI-7.3-20220214173614 IBM QRadar SIEM v7.4| All BlueCoatWSSRESTAPI versions before 7.4.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-BlueCoatWSSRESTAPI-7.4-20220217192850 IBM QRadar SIEM v7.5| All BlueCoatWSSRESTAPI versions before 7.5.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-BlueCoatWSSRESTAPI-7.5-20220217192923 ## Remediation/Fixes IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly. See the **Related Information** section below for instructions on verifying your currently installed version. **Product**| **Versions**| **Fix** ---|---|--- IBM QRadar SIEM| 7.3| [7.3.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-BlueCoatWSSRESTAPI-7.3-20220214173614](<https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/downloadFixes?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Other+software/IBM+Security+QRadar+SIEM&release=All&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=7.3.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-BlueCoatWSSRESTAPI-7.3-20220214173614.noarch.rpm&includeRequisites=1&includeSupersedes=0&downloadMethod=http> "7.3.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-BlueCoatWSSRESTAPI-7.3-20220214173614" ) IBM QRadar SIEM| 7.4| [7.4.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-BlueCoatWSSRESTAPI-7.4-20220217192850](<https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/downloadFixes?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Other+software/IBM+Security+QRadar+SIEM&release=All&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=7.4.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-BlueCoatWSSRESTAPI-7.4-20220217192850.noarch.rpm&includeRequisites=1&includeSupersedes=0&downloadMethod=http> "7.4.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-BlueCoatWSSRESTAPI-7.4-20220217192850" ) IBM QRadar SIEM| 7.5| [7.5.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-BlueCoatWSSRESTAPI-7.5-20220217192923](<https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/downloadFixes?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Other+software/IBM+Security+QRadar+SIEM&release=All&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=7.5.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-BlueCoatWSSRESTAPI-7.5-20220217192923.noarch.rpm&includeRequisites=1&includeSupersedes=0&downloadMethod=http> "7.5.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-BlueCoatWSSRESTAPI-7.5-20220217192923" ) ## Workarounds and Mitigations None ##


Affected Software


CPE Name Name Version
ibm qradar siem 7.3
ibm qradar siem 7.4
ibm qradar siem 7.5

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