SB2023092224 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Answer Retrieval for Watson Discovery
Published: September 22, 2023
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Uncaught Exception (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-31125)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform denial of service attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to an uncaught exception. A remote user can send specially crafted HTTP request to trigger the vulnerability and perform denial of service attacks.
2) 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.
3) 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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.