Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus can be affected by vulnerabilities in Node.js, Golang Go, HTTP/2, NGINX, OpenSSH and Linux. Vulnerabilities include, causing a denial-of-service condition, the elevation of privileges, remote execution of arbitrary code, HTTP header injection, HTML injection, cross-site scripting, allowing local authenticated user to bypass security restrictions, allowing remote user to obtain sensitive information and bypass security restrictions, server-side request forgery, as described by the CVEs in the "Vulnerability Details" section. These vulnerabilities have been addressed. CVE-2024-24787, CVE-2024-24788, CVE-2024-29415, CVE-2022-38096, CVE-2023-45288, CVE-2023-39323, CVE-2023-39325, CVE-2024-1394, CVE-2019-20372, CVE-2023-29409, CVE-2023-29406, CVE-2024-1086, CVE-2024-24785, CVE-2023-45289, CVE-2024-24783, CVE-2023-45290, CVE-2024-24784, CVE-2023-6931, CVE-2023-29400, CVE-2023-51767, CVE-2024-28849, CVE-2023-42282, CVE-2023-6546, CVE-2023-39318, CVE-2023-39321, CVE-2023-39319, CVE-2023-39322, CVE-2023-39320, CVE-2023-45283, CVE-2023-45284, CVE-2023-45287, CVE-2024-0565, CVE-2023-45285, CVE-2023-39326.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2024-24787
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw during build on darwin. By building a Go module contains CGO, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/290106 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2024-24788
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a high cpu usage in extractExtendedRCode function in the net module. By sending a specially crafted DNS message in response to a query, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an infinite loop.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/290108 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-2024-29415
DESCRIPTION: Node.js ip module is vulnerable to server-side request forgery, caused by a flaw with IP addresses are improperly categorized as globally routable via isPublic. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct SSRF attack.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/292577 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2022-38096
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the vmwgfx driver in drivers/gpu/vmxgfx/vmxgfx_execbuf.c in GPU component. By sending a specialy-crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privilege to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235788 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-2023-45288
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory exhaustion flaw due to flood of CONTINUATION frames in the HTTP/2 protocol stack in the net/http and x/net/http2 packages. 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/286962 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-2023-39323
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper enforcement of line directive restrictions in the "//go:cgo_" directives. By providing specially crafted input in the linker and compiler flags, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
Note: The line directive requires the absolute path of the file in which the directive lives, which makes exploiting this issue significantly more complex.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268524 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-2023-39325
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled resource consumption flaw in the net/http and x/net/http2 packages. By sending specially crafted requests using HTTP/2 client, 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/268645 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-2024-1394
DESCRIPTION: Golang golang-fips/openssl is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by memory leaks in code encrypting and decrypting rsa payloads. By using specially crafted public RSA keys which are not compliant with SP 800-56B, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/286318 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-2019-20372
DESCRIPTION: NGINX could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in certain error_page configurations. By sending a specially crafted request, 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: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/174252 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2023-29409
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled resource consumption flaw. By persuading a victim to use a specially crafted certificate with large RSA keys, an remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a client/server to expend significant CPU time verifying signatures, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262400 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-29406
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper contents validation of Host header by the HTTP/1 client. By persuading a victim to visit a specially crafted Web page, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary HTTP headers, which will allow the attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/260573 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-2024-1086
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by use-after-free flaw in the nft_verdict_init() function in the Netfilter subsystem. By sending a specially crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/281122 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-2024-24785
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw in the MarshalJSON methods in the html/template package. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject unexpected content into templates.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285305 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-2023-45289
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when following an HTTP redirect to a domain which is not a subdomain match or exact match of the initial domain. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive headers information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285338 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2024-24783
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the crypto/x509 package when verifying a certificate chain. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause Certificate.Verify to panic, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285303 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-2023-45290
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when parsing a multipart form in the net/textproto package. By sending a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to allocate arbitrarily large amounts of memory, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285339 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-2024-24784
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the crypto/x509 package when verifying a certificate chain. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause Certificate.Verify to panic, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285304 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2023-6931
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a heap out-of-bounds write flaw in the Performance Events system component. By sending a specially crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/275563 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-2023-29400
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code into the templates, which when parsed, would execute in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255427 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-2023-51767
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper authentication. By conducting a row hammer attack against the mm_answer_authpassword integer value to flip a single bit, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass authentication and obtain administrative access.
CVSS Base score: 7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/275816 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2024-28849
DESCRIPTION: Node.js follow-redirects module could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the leakage of credentials when clearing authorization header during cross-domain redirect, but keeping the proxy-authentication header. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain credentials and other sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285690 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2023-42282
DESCRIPTION: Node.js IP package could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a server-side request forgery flaw in the ip.isPublic() function. By sending a specially crafted request using a hexadecimal representation of a private IP address, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system and obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/282923 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-6546
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a race condition in the GSM 0710 tty multiplexor. By sending a specially crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/275779 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-2023-39318
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the html/template package. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted URL to execute script in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/265941 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2023-39321
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when processing partial post-handshake message in QUICConn.HandleData in the crypto/tls package. By sending a specially crafted post-handshake message for a QUIC connection, 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/265858 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-2023-39319
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the html/template package. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted URL to execute script in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/265942 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2023-39322
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled resource consumption flaw when reading post-handshake messages. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause unbounded memory growth, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/265863 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-2023-39320
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw in the go.mod toolchain directive. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/265873 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-45283
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by the failure to recognize paths with a \??\ prefix as a Root Local Device path prefix in the filepath and safefilepath package. An attacker could send a specially crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to view arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/270990 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2023-45284
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could provide weaker than expected security, caused by the failure to correctly detect reserved device names in some cases by the IsLocal function in the filepath package. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to report "COM1", and reserved names "COM" and "LPT" followed by superscript 1, 2, or 3 as local.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/270989 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-2023-45287
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a timing-side channel attack in the RSA based key exchange methods in crypto/tls. The removal of of PKCS#1 padding could allow a remote attacker to leak timing information, which in turn could be used to recover session key bits.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/273499 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-2024-0565
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds memory read due to an integer underflow on the memcpy length. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service condition on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/279430 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-45285
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when using go get to fetch a module with the ".git" suffix. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information from the insecure "git://" protocol, 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/273323 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-2023-39326
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the net/http package. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read many more bytes from the network than are in the body, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/273322 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
IBM Storage Protect Plus Server | 10.1.0 - 10.1.16.1 |
Remediation/Fixes
Affected Versions | Fixing Level | Platform | Link to Fix and Instructions |
10.1.0-10.1.16.1 | 10.1.16.2 | Linux | https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7109995 |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
30 Jul 2024: Initial Publication
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Modified date:
30 July 2024
UID
ibm17161954