Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Storage Defender – Data Protect

Summary

IBM Storage Defender – Data Protect is vulnerable and that can result in runtime errors, denial of service attacks, remote code execution, or remote access authentication bypass. The vulnerabilities have been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2018-17142
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by invalid memory address in html package (aka x/net/html). By using a specially-crafted value, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a runtime error.
CVSS Base score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/149973 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2018-17847
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an index out of range flaw during an html.Parse call in the html package. 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/150632 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-2018-17848
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an index out of range flaw during an html.Parse call in the html package. 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/150633 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-2020-14040
**DESCRIPTION:**Go Language x/text package is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a vulnerability in encoding/unicode in the UTF-16 decoder. By sending a single byte to a UTF16 decoder, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/184313 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-2020-8203
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js lodash module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a prototype pollution attack. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the merge, mergeWith, and defaultsDeep functions to inject properties onto Object.prototype to crash the server and possibly execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/183560 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-2020-9283
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang golang.org/x/crypto is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error during signature verification in the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh package. By persuading a victim to run a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/176688 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2021-23337
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js lodash module could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by a command injection flaw in the template. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196797 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2021-23341
**DESCRIPTION:**prism is vulnerable to a denial of service. By using the prism-asciidoc, prism-rest, prism-tap and prism-eiffel components, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS).
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197047 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-2021-3801
**DESCRIPTION:**Prismjs prism is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the inefficient regular expression complexity. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/209459 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-2022-31129
**DESCRIPTION:**Moment is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by inefficient regular expression complexity. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/230690 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-2023-20867
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tools could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to authenticate host-to-guest operations in the vgauth module. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a fully compromised ESXi host to bypass authentication and obtain access to the guest virtual machine.
CVSS Base score: 3.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257845 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-30861
**DESCRIPTION:**Pallets Flask could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by missing Vary: Cookie header. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain permanent session cookie 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/254247 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-2023-24329
**DESCRIPTION:**Python could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw in the urllib.parse component. By sending a specially-crafted request using URL starts with blank characters, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass blocklisting methods.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247730 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-2023-32067
**DESCRIPTION:**c-ares is vulnerable to a denial of service. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255936 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-2022-48339
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU Emacs could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by a flaw in the hfy-istext-command function. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/248054 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-21930
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition related to the JSSE component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause high confidentiality impact and high integrity impact.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253115 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-21937
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition related to the Networking component could allow a remote attacker to cause integrity impact.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253167 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-21938
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition related to the Libraries component could allow a remote attacker to cause integrity impact.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253155 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-21939
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition related to the Swing component could allow a remote attacker to cause integrity impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253168 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-2023-21954
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition related to the Hotspot component could allow a remote attacker to cause high confidentiality impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253166 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-2023-21967
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition related to the JSSE component could allow a remote attacker to cause high availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253156 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-2023-21968
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE and GraalVM Enterprise Edition related to the Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause low integrity impact.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253083 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-1996
**DESCRIPTION:**go-restful could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper regular expression implementation in the CORS Filter feature. By sending a specially-crafted request using the AllowedDomains parameter, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to break CORS policy and allow any page to make requests.
CVSS Base score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/228317 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends updating IBM Storage Defender – Data Protect to version 1.3.0. Reference this document which describes how to download installation images for IBM Storage Defender. Link to Fix Central here.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None