SB2025032026 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cognos Dashboards on Cloud Pak for Data
Published: March 20, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 29 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-42461)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when handling BER-encoded ECDSA signatures. A remote attacker can bypass signature-based security checks.
2) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31160)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when initializing a checkboxradio widget on an input enclosed within a label
makes that parent label contents considered as the input label. If .checkboxradio( "refresh" ) is called on such a
widget and the initial HTML contains encoded HTML entities, they will
erroneously get decoded and executed. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
3) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-36114)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak when handling untrusted input. A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.
4) Improper handling of exceptional conditions (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-41917)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect error handling in the REST API. A remote user can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted input to exploit this vulnerability to read partial file information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
5) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-23613)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to insertion of sensitive information into metadata. A remote user can send a specially-crafted request to exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
6) Improper Authentication (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-23612)
The vulnerability allows a remote privileged user to bypass authentication process.
The vulnerability exists due to a flaw in with whitespace in JWT roles. A remote privileged user can bypass authentication process and gain unauthorized access to the application.
7) Prototype pollution (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38986)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation. A remote attacker can merge methods of lodash to merge objects, which can result in information disclosure or data manipulation.
8) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-37890)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error when handling requests with the number of headers that exceeds the "server.maxHeadersCount" value. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
9) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-29133)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when calling the ListDelimiterHandler.flatten(Object, int) with a cyclical object tree. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
10) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-29131)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing untrusted input. A remote attacker can pass specialy crafted data to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
11) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-52428)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of user requests by the PasswordBasedDecrypter (PBKDF2) component. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request using a large JWE p2c header, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
12) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-4067)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability occurs in `micromatch.braces()` in `index.js` because the pattern `.*` will greedily match anything. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
13) Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-42459)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when handling EDDSA signatures. A remote attacker can bypass signature-based security checks.14) Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-42460)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when handling ECDSA signatures. A remote attacker can bypass signature-based security checks.15) Insecure DLL loading (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-41755)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to the application loads DLL libraries in an insecure manner. A remote attacker can place a specially crafted .dll file on a remote SMB fileshare, trick the victim into opening a file, associated with the vulnerable application, and execute arbitrary code on victim's system.
16) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-28849)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to credentials are shared via headers when following cross-domain redirects. A remote attacker can gain access to sensitive information.
17) Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2398)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when sending HTTP/2 server push responses with an overly large number of headers. A remote attacker can send PUSH_PROMISE frames with an excessive amount of headers to the application, trigger memory leak and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
18) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-7264)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the ASN1 parser code in the GTime2str() function. A remote attacker can trigger an out-of-bounds read error and cause a denial of service condition on the system.
19) Insufficient verification of data authenticity (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-25638)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to improper response validation when handling DNS queries. Records in DNS replies are not checked for their relevance to the query,
allowing an attacker to respond with RRs from different zones. A remote attacker can bypass DNSSEC restrictions.
20) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38372)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak when using the response.arrayBuffer(). A remote attacker can force the application to leak parts of Node.js process memory.
21) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-39338)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. 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.
22) Prototype pollution (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38999)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code.
The vulnerability exists due to prototype pollution via the function s.contexts._.configure. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform prototype pollution, which can result in information disclosure or data manipulation.
23) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-43796)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in response.redirect() method. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
24) Prototype pollution (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38998)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code.
The vulnerability exists due to prototype pollution via the function config. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform prototype pollution, which can result in arbitrary code execution or denial of service (DoS).
25) Incorrect authorization (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-41110)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authorization checks.
The vulnerability exists due to AuthZ zero length regression. A remote user can bypass authentication and gain elevated privileges.
26) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-25710)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop when processing a corrupt DUMP file. A remote attacker can consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.
27) Insufficient verification of data authenticity (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-37920)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exist due to software recognizes "e-Tugra" root certificates, which were subject to an investigation prompted by reporting of security issues in their systems. An attacker with ability to generate certificates signed with the compromised "e-Tugra" root certificate can perform MitM attack.
28) Insufficient verification of data authenticity (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23491)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass certificate validation checks.
The vulnerability exists due to presence of the TrustCor certificate in the Root Certificates list. the certificate is removed due to TrustCor's ownership also operated a business that produced spyware. Therefore, any checks that rely on digital signatures of trusted certificates were compromised.
29) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-41818)
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.
Remediation
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