Security Bulletin
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities were addressed in IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps version 4.2.0
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2023-24539
DESCRIPTION: Go is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code into a template containing multiple actions separated by a '/' character, which when viewed, would execute in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/256136 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-2023-24540
DESCRIPTION: Go is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code into a template containing whitespace characters outside of the character set "\t\n\f\r\u0020\u2028\u2029", which when viewed, would execute in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/256132 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-2023-29400
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-2022-45939
DESCRIPTION: GNU Emacs could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by using the system C library function in its implementation of the ctags program by lib-src/etags.c. By using shell metacharacters in the name of a source-code file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240814 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-2023-28617
DESCRIPTION: GNU Emacs Org Mode could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by a shell metacharacters injection flaw in org-babel-execute:latex in ob-latex.el. By sending a specially crafted request using file name or directory name, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/250546 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-2023-29402
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the generation of unexpected code at build time when using cgo. 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/257652 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-2023-29403
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a flaw when a binary is run with the setuid/setgid bits. By sending a specially crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges. to read or write contents of the registers.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257653 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-2023-29404
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw when running "go get" on a malicious module. By sending a specially crafted request using linker flags, 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/257654 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-2023-29405
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw when running "go get" on a malicious module. By sending a specially crafted request using linker flags, 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/257655 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)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps | 4.0.0-4.1.2 |
Remediation/Fixes
IBM strongly suggests that you address the vulnerabilities now for all affected products/versions listed above by installing Fix:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/SSJGDOB_4.2.0/upgrading/upgrading.html
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
28 Sep 2023: Initial Publication
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Modified date:
28 September 2023
UID
ibm17041675