Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring is potentially vulnerable to execution of arbitrary code due to its use of Apache Log4j (CVE-2022-23305)

Summary

Apache Log4j is used by IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring as part of its logging infrastructure. Apache Log4j v1.2 has been removed and replaced by Log4j v2.17.1. Components that use Apache Log4j v1.2 are not exposed outside the cluster and are not configured to use the vulnerable Log4j v1 classes. Furthermore, it will take extraordinary measures by a malicious insider to attempt to reconfigure the components to be vulnerable.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-23305
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Log4j is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements to the JDBCAppender, which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217461 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

To address the vulnerability, IBM strongly recommends you to upgrade IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management to 2.3 Fix Pack 5. For upgrading instructions, see <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-management/2.3.x?topic=installation-upgrade.&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None