SB2023120744 - IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data update for Node.js semver

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SB2023120744 - IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data update for Node.js semver

Published: December 7, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023120744
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
  • Low
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 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) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-20883)

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. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Specifically, an application is vulnerable if all of the conditions are true:

  • The application has Spring MVC auto-configuration enabled. This is the case by default if Spring MVC is on the classpath.
  • The application makes use of Spring Boot's welcome page support, either static or templated.
  • Your application is deployed behind a proxy which caches 404 responses.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References