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Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in Kubernetes affect IBM InfoSphere Information Server

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Summary

Muiltiple vulnerabilities in Kubernetes that is used by IBM InfoSphere Information Server were addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2019-9512
DESCRIPTION:   Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Ping Flood attack. By sending continual pings to an HTTP/2 peer, a remote attacker could consume excessive CPU resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/164903 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-2019-9514
DESCRIPTION:   Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Reset Flood attack. By opening a number of streams and sending an invalid request over each stream, a remote attacker could consume excessive CPU resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/164640 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-2019-11249
DESCRIPTION:   Kubernetes could allow a remote authenticated attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-1002101 and CVE-2019-11246. By persuading a victim to use the kubectl cp command with a malicious container, an attacker could replace or create arbitrary files on a user’s workstation.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/164768 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2019-11247
DESCRIPTION:   Kubernetes could allow a remote authenticated attacker to gain unauthorized access to the system, caused by an error in the API server. By sending a specially crafted request using the wrong scope, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to create, view, update or delete the cluster-scoped resource.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/164767 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2019-11254
DESCRIPTION:   Kubernetes is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in kube-apiserver. By sending a specially-crafted request using YAML payloads, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume excessive CPU cycles.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/178935 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-2019-11253
DESCRIPTION:   The Kubernetes API server is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a billion laughs attack, caused by an error when parsing YAML manifests. 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/168618 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-2019-9516
DESCRIPTION:   Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a 0-Length Headers Leak attack. By sending a stream of headers with a 0-length header name and 0-length header value, a remote attacker could consume excessive memory resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/165182 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-2019-9515
DESCRIPTION:   Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Settings Flood attack. By sending a stream of SETTINGS frames to the peer, a remote attacker could consume excessive CPU resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/165181 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-2019-9518
DESCRIPTION:   Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Empty Frame Flooding attack. By sending a stream of frames with an empty payload and without the end-of-stream flag, a remote attacker could consume excessive CPU resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/164904 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-2019-9517
DESCRIPTION:   Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an Internal Data Buffering attack. By opening the HTTP/2 window so the peer can send without constraint and sending a stream of requests for a large response object, a remote attacker could consume excessive CPU resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/165183 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-2019-9511
DESCRIPTION:   Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Data Dribble attack. By sending a HTTP/2 request by the HTTP/2 protocol stack (HTTP.sys) for an overly large amount of data from a specified resource over multiple streams, a remote attacker could consume excessive CPU resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/164638 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-2019-9513
DESCRIPTION:   Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Resource Loop attack. By creating multiple request streams and continually shuffling the priority of the streams, a remote attacker could consume excessive CPU resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/164639 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-2019-11248
DESCRIPTION:   Kubernetes could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the exposure of the debugging endpoint /debug/pprof by default on Kubelet healthz port. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain internal Kubelet memory addresses and configuration or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/164836 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2019-11250
DESCRIPTION:   Kubernetes could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by storing credentials in the log by the client-go library. By sending a specially-crafted command, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/166710 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2019-11251
DESCRIPTION:   Kubernetes could allow a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to the system, caused by an error in `kubectl cp` that allows a combination of two symlinks to copy a file outside of its destination directory. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to write arbitrary files outside of the destination tree.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/168617 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
InfoSphere Information Server with a microservices tier 11.7

Remediation/Fixes

Product VRMF APAR Remediation/First Fix
InfoSphere Information Server, Information Server on Cloud 11.7 JR63311 --Apply IBM InfoSphere Information Server version 11.7.1.0
--Apply IBM InfoSphere Information Server version 11.7.1.1
--Apply IBM Information Server version 11.7.1.1 Service Pack 1


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Workarounds and Mitigations

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Change History

01 Apr 2021: Initial Publication

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
01 April 2021

UID

ibm16436613