IBM Cloud Pak for Data System 1.0 update for Gunicorn



Risk High
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2024-6827
CWE-ID CWE-444
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 IBM Cloud Pak for Data System
Server applications / Other server solutions

Vendor IBM Corporation

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one high risk vulnerability.

1) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests

EUVDB-ID: #VU107611

Risk: High

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-6827

CWE-ID: CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling')

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to Gunicorn does not properly validate the value of the 'Transfer-Encoding' header as specified in the RFC standards, which leads to the default fallback method of 'Content-Length,' making it vulnerable to TE.CL request smuggling. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and initiate cache poisoning, data exposure, session manipulation, SSRF, XSS, DoS, data integrity compromise, security bypass, information leakage, and business logic abuse.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

IBM Cloud Pak for Data System: 1.0.0.0 - 1.0.8.4

CPE2.3 External links

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7232523


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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