SB2024091259 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Business Automation Workflow
Published: September 12, 2024
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-6345)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing URL in the package_index module of pypa/setuptools. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request and execute arbitrary code on the target system via download functions.
2) Cleartext storage of sensitive information (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-5206)
The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in TfidfVectorizer, which includes sensitive information such as tokens into the training data set. A local user can run the application with the default arguments except that we limit the vocabulary size and gain access to sensitive information.
3) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-37891)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to Prox-Authorization header is not stripped during cross-origin redirects when using urllib3's proxy support with ProxyManager. A remote attacker can gain obtain proxy credentials used by the library.
4) Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-39689)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to modify data on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to Certifi python-certifi provide weaker than expected security, caused by the use of GLOBALTRUST root certificate. A remote attacker can trigger the vulnerability to launch further attacks on the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.