SB2023051212 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cognos Analytics
Published: May 12, 2023
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 25 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31129)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of user-supplied input when parsing overly long strings. A remote attacker can pass a string that contains more that 10k characters and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
2) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5237)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
3) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-39036)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. The vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
4) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3518)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in libxml2. A remote attacker can use a specially crafted file and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
5) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3516)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in xmllint. A remote attacker can use a specially crafted file to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
6) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-41881)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop within the HaProxyMessageDecoder when parsing a TLV with type of "PP2_TYPE_SSL". A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted message to consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.
7) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-45061)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to usage of an unnecessary quadratic algorithm in one path when processing some inputs to the IDNA (RFC 3490) decoder. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted name to he decoder, trigger resource excessive CPU consumption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
8) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24729)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform regular expression denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in CKEditor 4 dialog plugin. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
9) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24728)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the core HTML processing module. A remote attacker can inject and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
10) XML External Entity injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-39135)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input within the EXISTS_NODE, EXTRACT_XML, XML_TRANSFORM and EXTRACT_VALUE SQL operators. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted XML code to the affected application and view contents of arbitrary files on the system or initiate requests to external systems.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to view contents of arbitrary file on the server or perform network scanning of internal and external infrastructure.
11) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3171)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input containing multiple instances of non-repeated embedded messages with repeated or unknown fields. A remote attacker can cause objects to be converted back-n-forth between mutable and immutable forms, resulting in potentially long garbage collection pauses.
12) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-22569)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application. protobuf-java allowes the interleaving of
com.google.protobuf.UnknownFieldSet fields in such a way that would be
processed out of order. A small malicious payload can occupy the parser
for several minutes by creating large numbers of short-lived objects
that cause frequent, repeated pauses. A remote attacker can trick the victim into passing specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service attack.
13) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38900)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
14) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24434)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can send a modified form to server, and crash the nodejs service. An attacker can sent the payload again and again so that the service continuously crashes.
15) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-21681)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to regular expression `inline.reflinkSearch` may cause catastrophic backtracking against some strings. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
16) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-21680)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to regular expression `block.def` may cause catastrophic backtracking against some strings. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
17) Reliance on Reverse DNS Resolution for a Security-Critical Action (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-43548)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DNS rebinding attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of octal IP address within the Node.js rebinding protector for --inspec. A remote attacker can
resolve the invalid octal address via DNS. When combined with an active
--inspect session, such as when using VSCode, an attacker can perform DNS
rebinding and execute arbitrary code in client's browser.
18) Use of insufficiently random values (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-35255)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to decrypt sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to usage of weak randomness in WebCrypto keygen within the SecretKeyGenTraits::DoKeyGen() in src/crypto/crypto_keygen.cc. A remote attacker can decrypt sensitive information.
19) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-35256)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests. 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.
20) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-32215)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to llhttp parser in the http module does not correctly handle multi-line 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.
21) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-32214)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to llhttp parser in the http module does not strictly use the CRLF sequence to delimit HTTP requests. 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.
22) Insecure DLL loading (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-32223)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to elevate privileges on the system
The vulnerability exists due to DLL search order hijacking of providers.dll. A local attacker can place a specially crafted .dll file and elevate privileges on the system
23) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-32213)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests. A remote attacker can send a specially-crafted request to lead to HTTP Request Smuggling to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
24) Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-32212)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to IsIPAddress does not properly checks if an IP address is invalid or not. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to bypass the IsAllowedHost check and execute arbitrary code on the system.
25) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34165)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests. 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.
Remediation
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