Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in python affects OS Images for Red Hat Linux Systems shipped with Cloud Pak System (CVE-2019-10160)

Security Bulletin

Summary

Vulnerabilities has been identified in python in OS Image for Red Hat Linux Systems shipped with Cloud Pak System. OS Image for Red Hat Linux Systems has addressed the vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2019-10160
DESCRIPTION: Python urllib.parse.urlsplit and urllib.parse.urlparse components could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by improper unicode encoding handling. By using a specially-crafted URL, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/162358 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Cloud Pak System V2.3.0

Remediation/Fixes

Python is affected in RHEL7 base OS image for CVE-2019-10160.

For more information, see: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10160

A new base OS image is released with the fix (python-2.7.5-80.el7_5.x86_64).

Redeploy the patterns with new base OS images.

The solution is to upgrade the IBM Cloud Pak System to the following fix pack release:

- V2.3.0.1

For unsupported version/release/platform IBM recommend to upgrade to fixed version/release/platform of the product. Contact IBM Cloud Pak Support for assistance.

Information on upgrading can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10887959

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Change History

October 24, 2019 - Original document published

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in python affects OS Images for Red Hat Linux Systems shipped with Cloud Pak System (CVE-2019-10160)