SB2024091911 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM watsonx.data
Published: September 19, 2024
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 5 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-26612)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to missing symbolic links checks when extracting files from TAR archives on Windows. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted archive and overwrite files on the system.
2) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-8029)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper access restrictions for the API interface. A remote authenticated user can use vulnerable API endpoint to execute arbitrary YARN commands on the system as root.
3) OS Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25168)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation within the FileUtil.unTar(File, File) API. A remote unauthenticated attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and execute arbitrary OS commands on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
4) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15713)
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to gain access to sensitive information.
Vulnerability in Apache Hadoop 0.23.x, 2.x before 2.7.5, 2.8.x before 2.8.3, and 3.0.0-alpha through 3.0.0-beta1 allows a cluster user to expose private files owned by the user running the MapReduce job history server process. The malicious user can construct a configuration file containing XML directives that reference sensitive files on the MapReduce job history server host.
5) Command injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-11766)
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper security restrictions. A remote attacker can escalate to yarn user access and execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on a targeted system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.