SB2023020134 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus File Systems Agent



SB2023020134 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus File Systems Agent

Published: February 1, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023020134
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 3
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

High 33% Medium 67%
  • Low
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) 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.


2) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-40897)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


3) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-45061)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to usage of an unnecessary quadratic algorithm in one path when processing some inputs to the IDNA (RFC 3490) decoder. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted name to he decoder, trigger resource excessive CPU consumption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.