SB2024011117 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation
Published: January 11, 2024 Updated: November 28, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 31 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28756)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing strings that have specific characters. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
2) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-5156)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak caused by an incorrect fix for #VU81447 (CVE-2023-4806). A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.
3) Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43809)
The vulnerability allows a local user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability occurs when working with untrusted and apparently harmless `Gemfile`'s. A local user can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted directory containing a `Gemfile` file that declares a dependency that is located in a Git repository and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
4) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-45857)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website.
5) Arbitrary file upload (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-31047)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to the application does not perform validation of files when using one form field for uploading multiple files. A remote attacker can upload a malicious file and execute it on the server.
6) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28755)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing URLs. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted URL to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
7) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-43642)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to missing upper bound check on chunk length. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
8) Link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4759)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to overwrite files on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to an insecure link following. A remote attacker can place a specially crafted symbolic link into the repository, trick the victim into cloning it and overwrite arbitrary files on the system.
9) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3998)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak in glibc realpath() function. A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack or gain access to sensitive information.
10) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-14343)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when processing untrusted YAML files through the full_load method or with the FullLoader loader. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and execute arbitrary code on the system by abusing the python/object/new constructor.
Note, the vulnerability exists due to incomplete patch for vulnerability #VU25823.
11) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-45648)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation when parsing HTTP trailer 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.
12) Open redirect (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-41080)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to redirect victims to arbitrary URL.
The vulnerability exists due to improper sanitization of user-supplied data, if the ROOT (default) web application is configured to use FORM authentication. A remote attacker can create a link that leads to a trusted website, however, when clicked, redirects the victim to arbitrary domain.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to perform a phishing attack and steal potentially sensitive information.
13) Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4586)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the Hot Rod client does not enable hostname validation when using TLS. A remote attacker can perform MitM attack.
14) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34169)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to an integer truncation issue when processing malicious XSLT stylesheets. A remote non-authenticated attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application to corrupt Java class files generated by the internal XSLTC compiler and execute arbitrary Java bytecode.
15) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-44271)
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 in ImageFont. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
16) Off-by-one (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3999)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to an off-by-one error glibc getcwd() function. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application that is using the affected library version, trigger an off-by-one error and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
17) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-35942)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information or perform a DoS attack.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in parse_param in posix/wordexp.c in the GNU C Library when called with an untrusted pattern. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger integer overflow and read arbitrary memory on the system of perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
18) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4641)
The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in gpasswd(1), which fails to clean memory properly. When asking for a new password, shadow-utils asks the password twice. If the password fails on the second attempt, shadow-utils fails in cleaning the buffer used to store the first entry. A local user with enough access can retrieve the password from the memory.
19) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4527)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information or perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the getaddrinfo() function called with the AF_UNSPEC address family. A remote attacker with control over DNS server can send a DNS response via TCP larger than 2048 bytes, trigger an out-of-bounds read and crash the application or gain access to potentially sensitive information.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that system is configured with no-aaaa mode via /etc/resolv.conf.
20) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4806)
The vulnerability allows an attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the getaddrinfo() function. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
21) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4813)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the gaih_inet() function when the getaddrinfo() function is called and the hosts database in
/etc/nsswitch.conf is configured with SUCCESS=continue or SUCCESS=merge. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
22) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4911)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
23) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-38697)
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.
24) Authorization bypass through user-controlled key (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-44981)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authorization process.
The vulnerability exists due to improper implementation of SASL Quorum Peer authentication. The instance part in SASL authentication ID, which is listed in zoo.cfg server
list, is optional and if it's missing,
the authorization check will be skipped. As a
result an arbitrary endpoint could join the cluster and begin
propagating counterfeit changes to the leader, essentially giving it
complete read-write access to the data tree.
25) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-1752)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the glob() function in glibc in the way the tilde expansion was carried out. Directory paths containing an initial tilde followed by a valid username are affected by this issue. A local user can create a specially crafted path that, when processed by the glob() function, would potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.
26) Incorrect Comparison (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-45133)
The vulnerability allows a local user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists in '@babel/traverse' and `babel-traverse`. A local user can execute arbitrary code during compilation, when using plugins that rely on the `path.evaluate()`or `path.evaluateTruthy()` internal Babel methods.
27) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-4285)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error when parsing an ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted file to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
28) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-46120)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to RabbitMQ Java client library allows Java and JVM-based applications to connect to and interact with RabbitMQ nodes. A remote attacker can send a very large Message causing a memory overflow and triggering an OOM Error to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
29) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19126)
The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to gain access to sensitive information.
On the x86-64 architecture, the GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.31 fails to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable during program execution after a security transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid program.
30) Stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10029)
The vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within "sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96/e_rem_pio2l.c" in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6). An attacker can pas specially crafted input to the application and trigger a stack-based buffer overflow.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system or denial of service conditions.
31) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-1751)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the "backtrace" function when handling signal trampolines on PowerPC. A remote attacker can trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Remediation
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