Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Certifi, Setuptools and Python may affect IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Microsoft File Systems Backup and Restore (CVE-2022-23491, CVE-2022-40897, CVE-2022-45061)

Summary

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Microsoft File Systems Backup and Restore can be affected by vulnerabilities in Certifi, Setuptools and Python. Vulnerabilities include error with TurstCor’s owenership of certificates and denial of service attacks, as described by the CVEs in the “Vulnerability Details” section.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-23491
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified error in with TrustCor’s ownership also operated a business that produced spyware in Certifi has an unknown impact and attack vector.
CVSS Base score: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241627 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/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: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/243028 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-2022-45061
**DESCRIPTION:**Python is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an unnecessary quadratic algorithm exists in one path when processing some inputs to the IDNA (RFC 3490) decoder. By sending a specially-crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a CPU denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240593 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Spectrum Protect **Plus Affected Versions
**|**Fixing
**Level|Platform|**Link to Fix and Instructions
**
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10.1.6-10.1.13| 10.1.13.1| Windows| <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6827871&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None