SB2024020634 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
Published: February 6, 2024 Updated: December 6, 2024
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 12 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-44487)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improperly control of consumption for internal resources when handling HTTP/2 requests with compressed HEADERS frames. A remote attacker can send a sequence of compressed HEADERS frames followed by RST_STREAM frames and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack, a.k.a. "Rapid Reset".
Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.
2) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-5156)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak caused by an incorrect fix for #VU81447 (CVE-2023-4806). A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.
3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4807)
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 the POLY1305 MAC (message authentication code) implementation. A remote attacker can send specially crafted input to the application and corrupt MM registers on Windows 64 platform, resulting in a denial of service condition.
4) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-0464)
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 verifying X.509 certificate chains that include policy constraints. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted certificate to trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
5) Type Confusion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-0286)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a type confusion error related to X.400 address processing inside an X.509 GeneralName. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger a type confusion error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack or read memory contents.
In most cases, the attack requires the attacker to provide both the certificate chain and CRL, neither of which need to have a valid signature. If the attacker only controls one of these inputs, the other input must already contain an X.400 address as a CRL distribution point, which is uncommon. As such, this vulnerability is most likely to only affect applications which have implemented their own functionality for retrieving CRLs over a network.
6) Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-0465)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when validating certificate policies in leaf certificates. A remote attacker that controls a malicious CA server can issue a certificate that will be validated by the application.
7) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-0466)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error within the X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() function, which does not perform the certificate policy check despite being implicitly enabled. A remote attacker can bypass expected security restrictions and perform MitM attack.
8) Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-31486)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to missing verification of the TLS certificate. A remote attacker can perform MitM attack and trick the application into downloading a malicious file.9) Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-31484)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to missing verification of the TLS certificate when downloading distributions. A remote attacker can perform MitM attack and trick the application into downloading a malicious file.
10) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-39325)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to excessive consumption of internal resources when handling HTTP/2 requests. A remote attacker can bypass the http2.Server.MaxConcurrentStreams setting by creating new connections while the current connections are still being processed, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
11) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3978)
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. 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.
12) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-39323)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when processing line directives (e.g. "//line") in the code. A remote attacker can bypass restrictions on "//go:cgo_" directives, allowing blocked linker and compiler flags to be passed during compilation. This can result in unexpected execution of arbitrary code when running "go build".
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.