Security Bulletin: Validator as used by IBM QRadar Assistant app for IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to denial of service (CVE-2021-3765)

Summary

Validator as used by IBM QRadar Assistant app for IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to denial of service. IBM QRadar Assistant app for IBM QRadar SIEM has addressed the applicable CVE.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-3765
**DESCRIPTION:**validator.js is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw when calling the rtrim function. By sending a specially-crafted regex input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/212669 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly.

Please follow this link to update to version 3.6.0

Workarounds and Mitigations

None