SB2022042755 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor
Published: April 27, 2022
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.
1) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-28469)
CWE-ID: CWE-185 - Incorrect Regular Expression
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect handling of user-supplied input in regular expression. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
2) LDAP injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-39031)
CWE-ID: CWE-90 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an LDAP Query ('LDAP Injection')
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing DLAP queries. A remote user can send a specially crafted request to modify the original LDAP query and gain unauthorized access to the application.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.