SB2024030742 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
Published: March 7, 2024
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 33 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1621)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted file, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
2) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28362)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the redirect_to method. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
3) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2048)
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 handling invalid HTTP/2 requests. A remote attacker can send specially crafted requests to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
4) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2431)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists in Kubelet that allows pods to bypass the seccomp profile enforcement. Pods that use localhost type for seccomp profile but specify an empty profile field, are affected by this issue. In this scenario, this vulnerability allows the pod to run in unconfined (seccomp disabled) mode
5) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-26125)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to poison application's cache.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when processing X-Forwarded-Prefix header. A remote attacker can pass send specially crafted request to the application and perform cache poisoning.
6) Insufficient Entropy (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-4238)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient entropy when generating alphanumeric strings within RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric functions, which always return strings containing at least one digit from 0 to 9. A remote attacker can launch brute-force attacks and gain access to sensitive information.
7) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1927)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to Illegal memory access and leads to a buffer over-read vulnerability in the utf_ptr2char() function. A local attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted file, trigger out-of-bounds read error and execute arbitrary code on the system.
8) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1629)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in find_next_quote() function. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it, trigger out-of-bounds read error, perform a denial of service attack, modify memory, and execute arbitrary code.
9) Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-34231)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists via single sign-on (SSO) browser URL authentication. A remote unauthenticated attacker can set up a malicious, publicly accessible server which responds to the SSO URL with an attack payload, trick the victim into visiting the maliciously crafted connection URL and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
10) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1785)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing untrusted input in vim_regsub_both() function. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it using the affected software, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
11) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1897)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to Illegal memory access and leads to an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the vim_regsub_both() function. A local attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted file, leading to a system crash or code execution.
12) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29824)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in several buffer handling functions in buf.c (xmlBuf*) and tree.c (xmlBuffer*). A remote attacker can pass specially crafted multi-gigabyte XML file to the application, trigger integer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
13) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-40303)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in parse.c when processing content when XML_PARSE_HUGE is set. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger an integer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
14) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-40304)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists in entities.c due to the way libxml2 handles reference cycles. The library does not anticipate that entity content can be allocated from a dict and clears it upon reference cycle detection by setting its first byte to zero. This can lead to memory corruption issues, such as double free errors and result in a denial of service.
15) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1586)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in the PCRE2 library in the compile_xclass_matchingpath() function of the pcre2_jit_compile.c file. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger out-of-bounds read error, gain access to sensitive information or perform a denial of service attack.
16) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-40152)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing untrusted input within the Woodstox XML parser. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted input to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds write and crash the application.
17) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-34104)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
18) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1436)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion when constructing a JSONArray from a Collection that contains a self-reference in one of its elements. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
19) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-25153)
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 importing an OCI image. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
20) Prototype pollution (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-26920)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform prototype pollution, which can result in information disclosure or data manipulation.
21) Unprotected Alternate Channel (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28840)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to unprotected alternate channel within encrypted overlay networks. A remote attacker can inject arbitrary Ethernet frames into the encrypted overlay network and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
22) Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28841)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to missing encryption of sensitive data within the overlay network driver. A remote attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive information on the system.
23) Unprotected Alternate Channel (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28842)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to unprotected alternate channel within encrypted overlay networks. A remote attacker can inject arbitrary Ethernet frames into the encrypted overlay network by encapsulating them in VXLAN datagrams.
24) LDAP injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-33201)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication process.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in applications that use an LDAP CertStore from Bouncy Castle to validate X.509 certificates. During the certificate validation process, Bouncy Castle inserts the certificate's Subject Name into an LDAP search filter without any escaping, which leads to an LDAP injection vulnerability. A remote non-authenticated attacker can use a specially crafted X.509 certificate to bypass authentication process and gain unauthorized access to the application.
25) Improper Privilege Management (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-25173)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges.
The vulnerability exists due to improper privilege management where supplementary groups are not set up properly inside a container. A local user can use supplementary group access to bypass primary group restrictions and compromise the container.
26) Improper Privilege Management (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-4415)
The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to improper privilege management when handling coredumps in coredump/coredump.c. A local user can gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability affects systems with libacl support.
27) Use of insufficiently random values (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-36732)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to the application generates random numbers by concatenating the string "0." with an
integer, which makes the output more predictable than necessary. A remote attacker can gain access to sensitive information.
28) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-32233)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in Netfilter nf_tables when processing batch requests. A local user can trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
29) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28466)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition caused by a missing lock_sock call within the do_tls_getsockopt() function in net/tls/tls_main.c. A local user can exploit the race and gain unauthorized access to sensitive information and escalate privileges on the system.
30) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1099)
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.The weakness exists due to improper validation of DNS hostnames. A remote attacker can send specially crafted requests, bypass security restrictions and gain network access to internal systems.
31) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2047)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when parsing invalid URIs such as http://localhost;/path. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and bypass implemented security restrictions, as the Jetty's HttpClient, and Jetty's ProxyServlet / AsyncProxyServlet / AsyncMiddleManServlet will wrongly interpret an authority of such URI as the one with a hostname.
32) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-23916)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect implementation of the "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, where the number of links in the decompression chain was limited for each header instead of the entire request. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted compressed HTTP request with numerous headers and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
33) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-29159)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and read arbitrary files on the system.
Remediation
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