SB2023061930 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S)
Published: June 19, 2023 Updated: October 12, 2023
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 22 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-30633)
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 calling Unmarshal on a XML document into a Go struct which has a nested field that uses the any field tag. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36087)
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 within uri_validate functions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
3) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-41717)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to excessive memory growth when handling HTTP/2 server requests. HTTP/2 server connections contain a cache of HTTP header keys sent by the client. While the total number of entries in this cache is capped, an attacker sending very large keys can cause the server to allocate approximately 64 MiB per open connection.
4) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29526)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to the Faccessat function can incorrectly report that a file is accessible, when called with a non-zero flags parameter. An attacker can bypass implemented security restrictions.
5) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23646)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted SVG file, trigger the vulnerability and spoof page content.
6) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43803)
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. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
7) Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1471)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insecure input validation when processing serialized data within the SnakeYaml's Constructor() class. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted yaml content to the application and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
8) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-4189)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client library when using it in PASV (passive) mode. A remote attacker can set up a malicious FTP server, trick the FTP client in Python into connecting back to a given IP address and port, which can lead to FTP client scanning ports which otherwise would not have been possible.
9) CRLF injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-0391)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary data in server response.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of attacker-supplied data within the urllib.parse module in Python. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application containing CR-LF characters and modify application behavior.
10) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3733)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application within the AbstractBasicAuthHandler class in urllib. A remote attacker with control over the server can perform regular expression denial of service attack during authentication.
11) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3737)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop. A remote attacker who controls a malicious server can force the client to enter an infinite loop on a 100 Continue response.
12) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-28131)
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 calling Decoder.Skip when parsing a deeply nested XML document. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
13) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-27664)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an HTTP/2 connection can hang during closing if shutdown were preempted by a fatal error. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
14) Improper Validation of Array Index (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-28852)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of array index in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while processing a BCP 47 tag. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request containing a malformed HTTP Accept-Language header and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
15) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-14040)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The x/text package before 0.3.3 for Go has a vulnerability in encoding/unicode that could lead to the UTF-16 decoder entering an infinite loop, causing the program to crash or run out of memory. An attacker could provide a single byte to a UTF16 decoder instantiated with UseBOM or ExpectBOM to trigger an infinite loop if the String function on the Decoder is called, or the Decoder is passed to golang.org/x/text/transform.String.
16) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-32149)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to ParseAcceptLanguage does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted Accept-Language header that will take a significant time to parse and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
17) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-38561)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
18) Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36046)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper error handling. A remote user can send specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
19) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-26520)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to create arbitrary files on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when handling jdbc URL or its properties. A remote attacker can call java.util.logging.FileHandler to write to arbitrary files through the loggerFile and loggerLevel connection properties.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to create and executable arbitraru JSP file under a Tomcat web root.
20) SQL injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31197)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries in database.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within the java.sql.ResultRow.refreshRow() method when processing column names. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the affected application and execute arbitrary SQL commands within the application database using the statement terminator, e.g." ;".
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to read, delete, modify data in database and gain complete control over the affected application.
21) Incorrect default permissions (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-41946)
The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to application stores files with sensitive information in system's temporary directory. A local user can read the files and gain access to sensitive information.
22) Improper initialization (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-21724)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper initialization in pgjdbc driver when handling attacker-controlled URL in connection properties as the driver does not verify if the class implements the expected interface before instantiating the class. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted URL to the affected application and execute arbitrary code in the system.
Remediation
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