SB2024100713 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Aspera Console



SB2024100713 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Aspera Console

Published: October 7, 2024 Updated: December 19, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024100713
CSH Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 17
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

High 12% Medium 59% Low 29%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 17 vulnerabilities.


1) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-39573)

CWE-ID: CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N]


The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in mod_rewrite proxy handler substitution. A remote attacker can cause unsafe RewriteRules to unexpectedly setup URL's to be handled by mod_proxy.


2) Sensitive Cookie Without 'HttpOnly' Flag (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-43845)

CWE-ID: CWE-1004 - Sensitive Cookie Without 'HttpOnly' Flag

CVSSv4: 6.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to the failure to set the HTTPOnly flag. A remote attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive information from the cookie on the system.


3) Improper Neutralization of HTTP Headers for Scripting Syntax (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-43847)

CWE-ID: CWE-644 - Improper Neutralization of HTTP Headers for Scripting Syntax

CVSSv4: 5.3 [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]


The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing HTTP requests. A remote user can send a specially crafted HTTP request with an arbitrary Host header that will be accepted by the application.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking attacks.


4) Improper Neutralization of HTTP Headers for Scripting Syntax (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-43852)

CWE-ID: CWE-644 - Improper Neutralization of HTTP Headers for Scripting Syntax

CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing HTTP requests. A remote non-authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request with an arbitrary Host header that will be accepted by the application.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking attacks.


5) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-40725)

CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor

CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when processing legacy content-type based configuration of handlers, such as "AddType" and similar configuration when files are requested indirectly. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and view contents of files, for example the source code of a PHP script can be served instead of interpreted.

Note, the vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for #VU93729 (CVE-2024-39884).


6) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-39884)

CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor

CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when processing legacy content-type based configuration of handlers, such as "AddType" and similar configuration when files are requested indirectly. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and view contents of files, for example the source code of a PHP script can be served instead of interpreted.


7) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-43850)

CWE-ID: CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSSv4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote user to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote user 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.


8) XPath Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-43840)

CWE-ID: CWE-643 - Improper Neutralization of Data within XPath Expressions

CVSSv4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote user to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to XPath injection. A remote user can exfiltrate sensitive application data and/or determine the structure of the XML document.


9) Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-43851)

CWE-ID: CWE-327 - Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

CVSSv4: 8.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to the use of weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms. A remote attacker can decrypt highly sensitive information.


10) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38472)

CWE-ID: CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N]


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 web server to leak NTLM hashes.

Note, the vulnerability affects Windows installations only.


11) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-25032)

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

CVSSv4: 5.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


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 when compressing data. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application, trigger memory corruption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


12) Not Using Password Aging (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-27272)

CWE-ID: CWE-262 - Not Using Password Aging

CVSSv4: 2.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote user to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to passwords can be reused when a new user logs into the system. A remote user can bypass security restrictions.


13) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-36387)

CWE-ID: CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSSv4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


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

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error when handling websocket over HTTP/2 connections. A remote attacker can send specially crafted data to the web server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


14) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38476)

CWE-ID: CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

CVSSv4: 9.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N]


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 with control over the backend server can run local handlers via internal redirect and gain access to sensitive information or compromise the affected system.


15) Man-in-the-middle attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-4000)

CWE-ID: CWE-300 - Channel Accessible by Non-Endpoint ('Man-in-the-Middle')

CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to decrypt TLS connections in certain situations.

The vulnerability exists due to boundary error when parsing HTTP requests. A remote unauthenticated attacker can conduct a man-in-the-middle attack that can lead to the target system to downgrade the Diffie-Hellman algorithm to 512-bit export-grade cryptography.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in modification of authentication information

16) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38473)

CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation

CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when handling incorrect encoding in mod_proxy. A remote attacker can force the web server to pass request URLs with incorrect encoding to backend services.


17) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-40898)

CWE-ID: CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

CVSSv4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N]


The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in Apache HTTP Server on Windows with mod_rewrite in server/vhost context. A remote attacker can force the web server to leak NTML hashes to a malicious server via SSRF and malicious requests.


Remediation

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