SB2025030606 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cognos Controller
Published: March 6, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 17 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-22259)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when parsing URL with the UriComponentsBuilder component. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.
2) Weak password requirements (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-41778)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform brute-force attack and guess the password.
The vulnerability exists due to IBM Controller does not require that users should have strong passwords by default. A remote user can perform a brute-force attack and guess users' passwords.
3) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-47554)
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 handling untrusted input passed to the org.apache.commons.io.input.XmlStreamReader class. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
4) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-7254)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when parsing nested groups as unknown fields with DiscardUnknownFieldsParser or Java Protobuf Lite parser, or against Protobuf map fields. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application to create unbounded recursions and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
5) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45296)
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.
6) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-52798)
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.7) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38808)
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 evaluating user-supplied SpEL expression. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
8) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-22243)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when parsing URL with the UriComponentsBuilder component. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.
9) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-22262)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when parsing URL with the UriComponentsBuilder component. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.
Note, this vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for #VU87614 (CVE-2024-22259) and #VU86695 (CVE-2024-22243).
10) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38809)
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 when parsing ETags from "If-Match" or "If-None-Match" request headers. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
11) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-22020)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote user to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when handling non-network imports in data URLs. A remote user can bypass network import restrictions and execute arbitrary code.
12) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-37372)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to bypass permissions model.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of UNC paths with backslashes. A remote user can bypass certain security restrictions.
13) Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-27980)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of batch files in child_process.spawn / child_process.spawnSync. An attacker can inject a malicious command line argument and achieve code execution even if the shell option is not enabled.
14) Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-36138)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of batch files in child_process.spawn / child_process.spawnSync on Windows. An attacker can inject a malicious command line argument and achieve code execution even if the shell option is not enabled.
Note, the vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for #VU88462 (CVE-2024-27980).
15) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-22018)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to bypass permissions model.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions when experimental permission model when the --allow-fs-read flag is used. A remote user can retrieve stats from files that they do not have explicit read access to.
16) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-36137)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges within the application.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions in the experimental permission model when the --allow-fs-write flag is used. A remote user can change file ownership and permissions via fs.fchown and fs.fchmod.
17) XML External Entity injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-28168)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted XML code to the affected application and view contents of arbitrary files on the system or initiate requests to external systems.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to view contents of arbitrary file on the server or perform network scanning of internal and external infrastructure.
Remediation
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