SB2024060309 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Answer Retrieval for Watson Discovery
Published: June 3, 2024
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 7 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-22329)
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.
2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-25026)
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 handling HTTP requests. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
3) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-27268)
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.
4) Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-29896)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to modify data on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to CSP headers generation feature might be "allow-listing" malicious injected resources like inlined JS, or references to external malicious scripts. A remote attacker can gain unauthorized access to modify data on the system.
5) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-27982)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and smuggle arbitrary HTTP headers.
Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to poison HTTP cache and perform phishing attacks.
6) Reachable Assertion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-27983)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion when handling HTTP/2 packets. A remote attacker can send a small amount of HTTP/2 frames packets with a few HTTP/2 frames inside and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
7) Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-27980)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of batch files in child_process.spawn / child_process.spawnSync. An attacker can inject a malicious command line argument and achieve code execution even if the shell option is not enabled.
Remediation
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