Security Bulletin: IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights impacted by Apache Log4j vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44832)

Summary

IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights is affected by the Apache Log4j vulnerability in the Apache Log4j2 versions 2.0-beta7 through 2.17.0 (excluding security fix releases 2.3.2 and 2.12.4) allowing a remote code execution (RCE) attack when a configuration uses a JDBC Appender with a JNDI LDAP data source URI when an attacker has control of the target LDAP server.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-44832
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker with permission to modify the logging configuration file to execute arbitrary code on the system. By constructing a malicious configuration using a JDBC Appender with a data source referencing a JNDI URI , an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute remote code.
CVSS Base score: 6.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216189 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Please use the instructions and full details from the README that’s in the IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights iFix6 tarball, and follow with the upgrade to IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insight iFix6.

The IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights iFix6 tarball is available here.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None