SB2024031228 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Data System

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SB2024031228 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Data System

Published: March 12, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024031228
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) CRLF injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-26137)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary data in server response.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of attacker-supplied data passed via the "method" parameter. A remote authenticated attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application containing CR-LF characters and modify application behavior.


2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7212)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an inefficient algorithm in the "_encode_invalid_chars" function in "util/url.py". A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References