SB2022101925 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell EMC NetWorker 



SB2022101925 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell EMC NetWorker

Published: October 19, 2022

Security Bulletin ID SB2022101925
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 3
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33037)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to preform HTTP request smuggling attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests, related to processing of transfer encoding headers.  A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and smuggle arbitrary HTTP headers.

Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to poison HTTP cache and perform phishing attacks.


2) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-34798)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the affected web server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


3) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-39275)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system or perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the ap_escape_quotes()  function. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the web server, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system but requires that the Apache module passes untrusted data to the affected function.

According to vendor, No included modules pass untrusted data to these functions


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.