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Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation 2.6.4 fixes multiple security vulnerabilities

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Summary

IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation 2.6.4 fixes multiple security vulnerabilities, listed in the CVEs below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2023-4527
DESCRIPTION:   glibc is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the getaddrinfo function. By sending a DNS response over TCP larger than 2048 bytes, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer, allowing an attacker to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/266261 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-4806
DESCRIPTION:   GNU glibc is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free flaw in the getaddrinfo() function. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/266465 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-4813
DESCRIPTION:   glibc is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free flaw in the gaih_inet function. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/265904 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-4911
DESCRIPTION:   glibc could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a buffer overflow in the dynamic loader's processing of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. By sending overly long data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/267581 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-38697
DESCRIPTION:   Socketry is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by improper parsing of the HTTP Content-Length header. By sending a specially crafted HTTP(S) Content-Length header, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 5.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262959 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-4641
DESCRIPTION:   shadow-maint shadow-utils could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by failing to clean the buffer used to store password information. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain password information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 4.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/271763 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-44981
DESCRIPTION:   Apache ZooKeeper could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw when SASL Quorum Peer authentication is enabled. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass authorization and allow arbitrary endpoints to join the cluster and begin propagating counterfeit changes.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268362 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-45133
DESCRIPTION:   Babel could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw in the path.evaluate()or path.evaluateTruthy(). By using a specially crafted code to compile, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268647 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-4285
DESCRIPTION:   GNU Binutils is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string, resulting in a segmentation fault when parsing ELF files. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/245796 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-46120
DESCRIPTION:   RabbitMQ Java Client is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by no message size limit in maxBodyLebgth. By sending a specially crafted message, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a memory overflow, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 4.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/269738 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2019-19126
DESCRIPTION:   GNU C Library could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by failing to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable during program execution. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass ASLR for a setuid program.
CVSS Base score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/172003 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2020-10029
DESCRIPTION:   GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based overflow during range reduction. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a stack corruption, leading to a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/177225 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2020-1751
DESCRIPTION:   GNU glibc could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds write when handling signal trampolines on PowerPC. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/180052 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2020-1752
DESCRIPTION:   GNU glibc could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free. By creating a specially crafted path, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/181313 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-35942
DESCRIPTION:   GNU C Library (aka glibc) could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when called with an untrusted, crafted pattern in thewordexp function. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain read arbitrary memory in parse_param (in posix/wordexp.c), or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/206317 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-3998
DESCRIPTION:   GNU glibc could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an unexpected return value flaw in the realpath() function. By execute a specially-crafted program, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information from the buffer, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217980 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-3999
DESCRIPTION:   GNU glibc is vulnerable to an off-by-one buffer overflow and underflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the getcwd() function. By sending a specially-crafted request, a local authenticated attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217981 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-5156
DESCRIPTION:   GNU C Library (glibc) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak in getaddrinfo.c. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/267194 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-43809
DESCRIPTION:   RubyGems Bundler package could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an argument injection flaw. By using a specially-crafted Gemfile file that contains a dash leading git url parameter, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/214794 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-45857
DESCRIPTION:   Axios is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. By inserting the X-XSRF-TOKEN header using the secret XSRF-TOKEN cookie value in all requests to any server when the XSRF-TOKEN0 cookie is available, and the withCredentials setting is turned on, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform cross-site scripting attacks, Web cache poisoning, and other malicious activities.
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/270574 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-31047
DESCRIPTION:   Django could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass of validation.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/254317 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-28755
DESCRIPTION:   Ruby uri gem is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the URI component. By sending a specially crafted regex input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/252192 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-43642
DESCRIPTION:   snappy-java is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by missing upper bound check on chunk length. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/267079 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-28756
DESCRIPTION:   Ruby time gem is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the Time parser. By sending a specially crafted regex input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/252193 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-4759
DESCRIPTION:   Eclipse JGit could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper handling of case insensitive filesystems. By using a specially crafted symlink, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/265872 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2020-14343
DESCRIPTION:   YAML PyYAML could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw when processing untrusted YAML files through the full_load method or with the FullLoader loader. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted YAML file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197449 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-45648
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by improper parsing of HTTP trailer headers. By sending a specially crafted invalid trailer header, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268200 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-41080
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks, caused by an open redirect vulnerability in the FORM authentication feature. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted URL to redirect a victim to arbitrary Web sites.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/264483 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-4586
DESCRIPTION:   Hot Rod client is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by the failure to enable hostname validation when using TLS. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a man-in-the-middle attack and gain access to the communication channel between endpoints to obtain sensitive information or further compromise the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/267113 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-34169
DESCRIPTION:   The Apache Xalan Java XSLT library could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer truncation issue when processing malicious XSLT stylesheets. By using specially crafted XSLT stylesheets, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/231489 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-44271
DESCRIPTION:   Pillow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw with uncontrollably allocates memory to process a given task. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause service to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/270517 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation2.x

Remediation/Fixes

As per CVEs listed above

IBM strongly suggests the following remediation / fixes:

IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation v2.6.4 can be deployed on-premises.

Please go to https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-network-auto/2.6.4 to follow the installation instructions relevant to your chosen architecture.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.  Upgrade to the latest version.

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

15 Dec 2023: Initial Publication

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
15 December 2023

UID

ibm17097679