SB2024051009 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services
Published: May 10, 2024
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-34055)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in Web Observations. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that application is using Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux and that org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-actuator is on the classpath.
2) Incorrect permission assignment for critical resource (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-34042)
The vulnerability allows a local user to compromise the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect permission assignment for spring-security.xsd. A local administrator can write arbitrary file on the system.
3) Use of insufficiently random values (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-5408)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to the affected software uses a fixed null initialization vector with CBC Mode in the implementation of the queryable text encryptor. A remote authenticated attacker can derive the unencrypted values using a dictionary attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.