Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-0837 - Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in IBM Qradar Security Information and Event Manager
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
The AutoUpdate process in IBM Security QRadar SIEM 7.2 MR1 and earlier does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a crafted certificate.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Signature Spoofing by Key Recreation An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by exploiting a cryptographic weakness in the signature algorithm or pseudorandom number generation and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.