Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM Cognos Dashboards on Cloud Pak for Data 4.7.3 resolves vulnerabilities reported in the Node.js February 2023 (CVE-2023-23918, CVE-2023-23920, CVE-2023-24807, CVE-2023-23936, CVE-2023-23919) and June 2023 (CVE-2023-30588, CVE-2023-30589) Security Releases as well as vulnerabilities in Python (CVE-2023-27043) , Python Pypa setuptools (CVE-2022-40897) and Apache HttpClient (CVE-2020-13956) that could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions. Additionally, a reverse tabnabbing vulnerability (CVE-2023-38735) and vulnerabilities that expose sensitive information and lead to further attacks have been resolved (CVE-2023-38275, CVE-2023-38276).
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2023-27043
DESCRIPTION: Python could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a parsing flaw in the email.utils.parsaddr() and email.utils.getaddresses() functions. By sending a specially-crafted e-mail addresses with a special character, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to send messages from e-mail addresses that would otherwise be rejected.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253191 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-2023-30588
DESCRIPTION: Node.js is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by invalid public key information in x509 certificates. By accessing public key info of provided certificates from user code, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to force interruptions of application processing and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258623 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2023-30589
DESCRIPTION: Node.js is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by the failure to strictly use the CRLF sequence to delimit HTTP requests by the llhttp parser in the http module. By sending specially crafted HTTP request headers, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258624 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)
CVEID: CVE-2023-38275
DESCRIPTION: IBM Cognos Dashboards exposes sensitive information in container images which could lead to further attacks against the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/260735 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2023-38276
DESCRIPTION: IBM Cognos Dashboards exposes sensitive information in environment variables which could aid in further attacks against the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/260736 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2023-23918
DESCRIPTION: Node.js could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw when enable the experimental permissions option with --experimental-policy. By sending a specially-crafted request using process.mainModule.require(), an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass Permissions and access non authorized modules.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247698 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-2023-23920
DESCRIPTION: Node.js could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper access control. By sending a specially-crafted request using ICU_DATA environment variable, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to search and potentially load ICU data.
CVSS Base score: 2.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247694 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2023-24807
DESCRIPTION: Node.js is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the Headers.set() and Headers.append() methods in the fetch API. 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/247695 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-2023-23936
DESCRIPTION: Node.js is vulnerable to CRLF injection, caused by a flaw in the fetch API. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP response containing CRLF character sequences, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning, session hijacking, HTTP response splitting or HTTP header injection.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247696 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2023-23919
DESCRIPTION: Node.js is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by not clear the OpenSSL error stack after operations. By sending specially-crafted cryptographic operations, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247697 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-2020-13956
DESCRIPTION: Apache HttpClient could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the improper handling of malformed authority component in request URIs. By passing request URIs to the library as java.net.URI object, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to pick the wrong target host for request execution.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/189572 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-2023-38735
DESCRIPTION: IBM Cognos Dashboards could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a reverse tabnabbing flaw. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability and redirect a victim to a phishing site.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262482 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2022-40897
DESCRIPTION: Pypa Setuptools is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending request with a specially crafted regular expression, an 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/243028 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)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Cognos Dashboards on Cloud Pak for Data | 4.7.0 |
Remediation/Fixes
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) | Fix Version |
| IBM Cognos Dashboards on Cloud Pak for Data | 4.7.0 | Upgrading Cognos Dashboards from Version 4.7.x to a later 4.7 refresh |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
20 Oct 2023: Initial Publication
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Modified date:
20 October 2023
UID
ibm17031207