SB2024030414 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data



SB2024030414 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Published: March 4, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024030414
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 5
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 5 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Reliance on Reverse DNS Resolution for a Security-Critical Action (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-25220)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to poison DNS cache.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in DNS forwarder implementation. When using forwarders, bogus NS records supplied by, or via, those forwarders may be cached and used by named if it needs to recurse for any reason, causing it to obtain and pass on potentially incorrect answers. The cache could become poisoned with incorrect records leading to queries being made to the wrong servers, which might also result in false information being returned to clients.



2) Improper validation of certificate with host mismatch (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-28363)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.

The vulnerability exists due to urllib3 library for Python omits SSL certificate validation in some cases involving HTTPS to HTTPS proxies. The initial connection to the HTTPS proxy (if an SSLContext isn't given via proxy_config) doesn't verify the hostname of the certificate. This means certificates for different servers that still validate properly with the default urllib3 SSLContext will be silently accepted. A remote attacker can supply a valid SSL certificate for a different hostname and perform Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack.


3) 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.


4) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3341)

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 handling control channel messages . A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


5) Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-5752)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when installing a package from a Mercurial VCS URL (ie "pip install hg+...") with pip. A remote attacker who controls the repository can use the specified Mercurial revision to inject arbitrary configuration options to the "hg clone" call (ie "--config").


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.