SB2024013032 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
Published: January 30, 2024
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 23 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Download of code without integrity check (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-29401)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to modify data on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to software does not perform software integrity check when downloading updates. A remote attacker with ability to perform man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack can supply a malicious software image and modify data on the system.
2) Improper Privilege Management (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-26604)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper privilege management for some Sudo configurations, e.g., plausible sudoers files in which the "systemctl status" command may be executed. Specifically, systemd does not set LESSSECURE to 1, and thus other programs may be launched from the less program. This presents a substantial security risk when running systemctl from Sudo, because less executes as root when the terminal size is too small to show the complete systemctl output.
3) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5764)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security controls on the target system.The weakness exists in the parse_arguments() function in 'options.c' due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can send multiple '--protect-args' values and bypass the argument-sanitization protection mechanism.
4) Improper Privilege Management (CVE-ID: CVE-2002-0080)
The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to rsync, when running in daemon mode, does not properly call setgroups before dropping privileges. A local user can get supplemental group privileges to read certain files that would otherwise be disallowed.
5) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-24736)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when executing a crafted SELECT query. A local user can execute a specially crafted query to trigger memory corruption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
6) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-37276)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests in the aiohttp.web.Application. 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.
7) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28859)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition. A remote attacker can exploit the race and gain unauthorized access to sensitive information on the system.
8) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-43552)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error while processing denied requests from HTTP proxies when using SMB or TELNET protocols. A remote attacker can trigger a use-after-free error and crash the application.
9) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-35252)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the way curl handles cookies with control codes (byte values below 32). When cookies that contain such control codes are later sent back to an
HTTP(S) server, it might make the server return a 400 response, effectively allowing a "sister site" to deny service to siblings.
10) Observable Response Discrepancy (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3462)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to the observable response discrepancy issue in the LDAP auth method. A remote user can enumerate valid accounts.
11) State Issues (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-27535)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to FTP server.
The vulnerability exists due to cURL will reuse a previously created FTP connection even when one or more options had been changed that could have made the effective user a very different one. A remote attacker can connect to the FTP server using credentials supplied by another user and gain access to otherwise restricted functionality.
The settings in questions are CURLOPT_FTP_ACCOUNT, CURLOPT_FTP_ALTERNATIVE_TO_USER, CURLOPT_FTP_SSL_CCC and CURLOPT_USE_SSL level.
12) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1271)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation when processing filenames with two or more newlines. A remote attacker can force zgrep or xzgrep to write arbitrary files on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise the affected system.
13) Inadequate Encryption Strength (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-0361)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in the TLS RSA key exchange. A remote attacker can perform Bleichenbacher oracle attack and decrypt information.
14) Algorithm Downgrade (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2974)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to modify data on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to TLS protocol configured with quarkus.http.ssl.protocols is not enforced. A remote user can client can force the selection of the weaker supported TLS protocol to modify data on the system.
15) Insufficient verification of data authenticity (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-37920)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exist due to software recognizes "e-Tugra" root certificates, which were subject to an investigation prompted by reporting of security issues in their systems. An attacker with ability to generate certificates signed with the compromised "e-Tugra" root certificate can perform MitM attack.
16) Improper certificate validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-38325)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper certificate validation when handling SSH certificates that have critical options. A remote attacker can perform MitM attack.
17) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2795)
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 when processing large delegations. A remote attacker can flood the target resolver with queries and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
18) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-34462)
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 if no idle timeout handler was configured. A remote attacker can send a client hello packet, which leads the server to buffer up to 16MB of data per connection and results in a denial of service condition.
19) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2828)
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 cause the amount of memory used by a named resolver to go well beyond the configured max-cache-size limit. The effectiveness of the attack depends on a number of factors (e.g. query load, query patterns), but since the default value of the max-cache-size statement is 90%, in the worst case the attacker can exhaust all available memory on the host running named, leading to a denial-of-service condition.
20) OS Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2491)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a missing fix for #VU74578 (CVE-2023-28617). A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted file and execute arbitrary OS commands on the target system via a file name or directory name that contains shell metacharacters.
21) Improper Authentication (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2283)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication process.
The vulnerability exists due to an error within the pki_verify_data_signature() function in pki_crypto.c. The pki_key_check_hash_compatible() function can return SSH_OK value if memory allocation error happens later in the function. The A remote attacker can bypass authentication process and gain unauthorized access to the system.
22) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1667)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to multiple errors in kex implementation, related to kex guessing algorithm. A remote attacker can bypass implemented security restrictions.
23) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36227)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in libarchive. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted archive to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.