SB20260917212 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM DataStax Enterprise

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 30 vulnerabilities.

1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-34462)

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

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 application does not properly control consumption of internal resources if no idle timeout handler was configured. A remote attacker can send a client hello packet, which leads the server to buffer up to 16MB of data per connection and results in a denial of service condition.

2) Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-67721)

CWE-ID: CWE-201 - Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data

CVSSv4: 8.7 [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]

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to disclose sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to insertion of sensitive information into sent data in the Java-based Snappy and LZ4 decompressor implementation when processing crafted compressed input. A remote attacker can send specially crafted compressed input to disclose sensitive information.

Exploitation requires the application to reuse the same decompression output buffer across calls without clearing it first.

3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-4970)

CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation

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 non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

handler/ssl/OpenSslEngine.java in Netty 4.0.x before 4.0.37.Final and 4.1.x before 4.1.1.Final allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop). <a href="http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/835.html">CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')</a>

4) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-20444)

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

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

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

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of HTTP headers without the colon within the HttpObjectDecoder.java file in Netty. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the application and perform HTTP request smuggling attack.

5) HTTP response splitting (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-20445)

CWE-ID: CWE-113 - Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Response Splitting')

CVSSv4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP splitting attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to software does not corrector process CRLF character sequences within the HttpObjectDecoder.java in Netty, which allows a Content-Length header to be accompanied by a second Content-Length header, or by a Transfer-Encoding header. A remote attacker can send specially crafted request containing CRLF sequence and make the application to send a split HTTP response.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker perform cache poisoning attack.

6) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7238)

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

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

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing a whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers (e.g. "Transfer-Encoding : chunked") and a later Content-Length header. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and perform HTTP request smuggling attack.

This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-16869 (SB2019092616).

7) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16869)

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

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

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing a whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers (e.g. "Transfer-Encoding : chunked"). A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and perform HTTP request smuggling attack.

8) Cleartext storage of sensitive information (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-21290)

CWE-ID: CWE-312 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

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

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure usage of temporary files in AbstractDiskHttpData method in Netty. The application stores sensitive information in temporary file that has insecure permissions. A local user can view application's temporary file and gain access to potentially sensitive data.

9) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-21295)

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

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

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests in io.netty:netty-codec-http2 when converting HTTP/2 to HTTP/1 streams. 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.

10) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-21409)

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

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

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests in io.netty:netty-codec-http2 in Netty, if the request only uses a single Http2HeaderFrame with the endStream set to to true. 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.

11) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-37136)

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

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 application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in Bzip2 decompression decoder function. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

12) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-37137)

CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation

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 non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation within the Snappy frame decoder function. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests and perform a denial of service attack.

13) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43797)

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

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

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests when processing control chars present at the beginning / end of the header name. 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.

14) Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24823)

CWE-ID: CWE-378 - Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions

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

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to usage of insecure permissions for temporary files. A local user can view contents of temporary files and gain access to sensitive information.

15) Cleartext storage of sensitive information (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-27315)

CWE-ID: CWE-312 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

CVSSv4: 6.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

The vulnerability allows a local user to disclose sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of sensitive information in the cqlsh history file when saving previously executed cqlsh commands. A local user can read the local ~/.cassandra/cqlsh_history file to disclose sensitive information.

Passwords used in commands such as login or user creation may be stored in cleartext in the history file.

16) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-32588)

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

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

The vulnerability allows a remote user to cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to resource consumption in ALTER ROLE password hashing when processing repeated password change requests over CQL. A remote user can issue repeated password change requests to cause a denial of service.

17) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-45292)

CWE-ID: CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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

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

The vulnerability affects the baggage propagation implementation in opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-extension-trace-propagators. Parsing oversized baggage causes unbounded memory allocation and CPU consumption. Because baggage is automatically re-injected into every outgoing request, the effect can fan out to downstream services that never received the original malicious request. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

18) CRLF injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-67735)

CWE-ID: CWE-93 - Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection')

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

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary data in server response.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of attacker-supplied data in io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequestEncoder. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application containing CR-LF characters and modify application behavior.

19) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-46340)

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

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 cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled resource consumption in SCTP message reassembly in netty-transport-sctp when processing non-complete SCTP message fragments. A remote attacker can send a sequence of tiny fragmented DATA chunks that never set the complete flag to cause a denial of service.

Each stream identifier maintains its own accumulator entry, and there is no limit on fragment depth, total buffered bytes, or the number of stream identifiers tracked.

20) Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-45536)

CWE-ID: CWE-772 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

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

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to improper resource shutdown in netty_unix_socket_recvFd when receiving SCM_RIGHTS control messages containing two file descriptors over a unix domain socket. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted message to cause a denial of service.

The issue is reachable via Epoll/KQueue DomainSocketChannel only when the application enables DomainSocketReadMode.FILE_DESCRIPTORS.

21) Generation of Predictable Numbers or Identifiers (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-45673)

CWE-ID: CWE-340 - Generation of Predictable Numbers or Identifiers

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

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to poison the DNS cache.

The vulnerability exists due to generation of predictable numbers or identifiers in the Netty DNS resolver when generating DNS transaction IDs and using the default static UDP source port for DNS queries. A remote attacker can spoof DNS responses to poison the DNS cache.

Successful exploitation may cause downstream applications to connect to malicious IP addresses, enabling traffic interception or machine-in-the-middle attacks.

22) Insufficient verification of data authenticity (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-45674)

CWE-ID: CWE-345 - Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

CVSSv4: 9.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to poison the DNS cache.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient verification of data authenticity in DnsResolveContext buildAliasMap when processing CNAME records in DNS responses. A remote attacker can send a malicious DNS response containing out-of-bailiwick CNAME records to poison the DNS cache.

Any application using Netty's DNS resolver is impacted.

23) Insufficient verification of data authenticity (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-47691)

CWE-ID: CWE-345 - Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

CVSSv4: 9.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to poison the DNS cache.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient verification of data authenticity in the DnsResolveContext.AuthoritativeNameServerList handling of NS records when processing DNS responses containing NS records in the AUTHORITY section and A records in the ADDITIONAL section. A remote attacker can provide crafted DNS records to poison the DNS cache.

Exploitation requires control of an authoritative name server for a subdomain, and the poisoned cache can affect future resolutions under the parent domain.

24) Incorrect Comparison (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-44249)

CWE-ID: CWE-697 - Incorrect Comparison

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

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass IPv6 subnet access controls.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect comparison in IpSubnetFilterRule.compareTo() when evaluating IPv6 subnet rules. A remote attacker can use a valid public IP address to bypass IPv6 subnet access controls.

The issue is caused by applying a bitwise AND operation to the configured networkAddress instead of the subnetMask.

25) Uncontrolled Memory Allocation (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-45416)

CWE-ID: CWE-789 - Uncontrolled Memory Allocation

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 cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled memory allocation in SslClientHelloHandler.decode() when processing a TLS ClientHello that does not fit in the first record. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted ClientHello with a large handshake length to cause a denial of service.

The issue is exposed by the commonly used SniHandler and AbstractSniHandler constructors because they disable the client hello length guard and do not schedule a handshake timeout.

26) Improper Resource Shutdown or Release (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-48006)

CWE-ID: CWE-404 - Improper Resource Shutdown or Release

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 cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to improper resource shutdown or release in RedisArrayAggregator when a Redis pipeline connection closes before a RESP array aggregate completes. A remote attacker can repeatedly open and close connections to cause a denial of service.

The issue leaks pooled direct-memory buffers retained in per-handler state, which can exhaust the shared direct-memory pool and trigger allocation failures across Netty channels in the same process.

27) Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-44893)

CWE-ID: CWE-772 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

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 cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to improper resource management in HAProxyMessage.readNextTLV() when decoding a PP2_TYPE_SSL TLV with an invalid length. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HAProxy TLV to cause a denial of service.

The issue is triggered when the TLV length is set below 5, causing an IndexOutOfBoundsException to propagate while a retained slice on the pooled cumulation buffer is not released.

28) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-48059)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

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 cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to improper memory management in the HAProxy PROXY protocol v2 codec when parsing syntactically valid headers containing nested PP2_TYPE_SSL TLVs. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted header to cause a denial of service.

The issue occurs on the successful parse path without throwing an exception, and the underlying pooled cumulation buffer remains pinned even if the application releases the HAProxyMessage normally.

29) Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-55276)

CWE-ID: CWE-670 - Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation

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

The vulnerability allows a local user to obtain incomplete security configuration information.

The vulnerability exists due to logic errors in effective web.xml generation in the logged effective web.xml output when generating configuration logs. A local user can review the logged output to obtain incomplete security configuration information.

Special roles and empty authorization constraints are omitted from the logged effective web.xml.

30) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-58057)

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/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 application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in BrotliDecoder and some other decompressing decoders. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7287784