SB2023091521 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
Published: September 15, 2023 Updated: March 6, 2024
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 23 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25883)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application via the new Range function and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
2) Origin validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-26291)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to Apache Maven follows by default all repositories that are defined in a dependency’s Project Object Model (pom), including repositories accessible over HTTP protocol (e.g. without TLS encryption). A remote attacker can perform MitM attack and compromise the application.
3) Prototype pollution (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11358)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform prototype pollution, which can result in information disclosure or data manipulation.
4) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-9251)
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 when a cross-domain Ajax request is performed without the dataType option. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary text/javascript responses 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.
5) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7760)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing regular expression. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
6) Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1000027)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insecure input validation when processing serialized data. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
7) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22976)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in BCrypt class with the maximum work factor (31) for BCryptPasswordEncoder. The encoder does not perform any salt rounds, which weakens encryption capabilities of the software.
8) XML External Entity injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12621)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input. 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.
9) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-13956)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected application.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in Apache HttpClient. A remote attacker can pass request URIs to the library as java.net.URI object and force the application to pick the wrong target host for request execution.
10) Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-5783)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.
The vulnerability exists due to Apache Commons HttpClient does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate. A remote attacker can perform a man-in-the-middle attack to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.
11) Incorrect default permissions (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-8908)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect default permissions for files located in the temporary directory set by the Guava com.google.common.io.Files.createTempDir(). A local user with access to the system can view contents of files and directories or modify them.
12) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-26115)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
13) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-24815)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences, when running vertx web applications that serve files using `StaticHandler` on Windows Operating Systems and Windows File Systems, if the mount point is a wildcard (`*`). A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and read arbitrary files on the system.
14) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-41862)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition. A remote attacker can send an unterminated string during the establishment of Kerberos transport encryption, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.
15) Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-35899)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of csv file contents. A remote unauthenticated attacker can execute arbitrary commands on the system.
16) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-33858)
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. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link 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.
17) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-34454)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in compress. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger integer overflow and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.
18) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-34455)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
19) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-34453)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in shuffle. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger integer overflow and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.
20) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-32732)
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 cause a termination of connection between a HTTP2 proxy and a gRPC server.
21) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-32731)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when parsing HTTP2 requests. When gRPC HTTP2 stack raised a header size exceeded error, it skipped parsing the rest of the HPACK frame. This caused any HPACK table mutations to also be skipped, resulting in a desynchronization of HPACK tables between sender and receiver. This could lead to requests from the proxy being interpreted as containing headers from different proxy clients, leading to an information leak that can be used for privilege escalation or data exfiltration.
22) Reachable Assertion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1428)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion. A remote attacker can trigger the vulnerability to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
23) XML External Entity injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33813)
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 SAXBuilder. 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.
Remediation
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