Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data (CVE-2020-4888)

Summary

IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-4888
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM QRadar SIEM could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by insecure deserialization of user-supplied content by the Java deserialization function. By sending a malicious serialized Java object, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system
CVSS Base score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/190912 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM QRadar SIEM 7.4.0 to 7.4.2 Patch 1

IBM QRadar SIEM 7.3.0 to 7.3.3 Patch 7

Remediation/Fixes

QRadar / QRM / QVM 7.4.2 Patch 2

QRadar / QRM / QVM 7.3.3 Patch 7 IF 1

QRadar incident forensics please use the SFS below

QRadar Incident Forensics / QNI 7.4.2 Patch 2

QRadar Incident Forensics / QNI 7.3.3 Patch 7 IF 1

Workarounds and Mitigations

None