Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Fusion may be vulnerable to Injection, Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS), and Arbitrary Code Execution and via use of postcss, semver, babel-traverse (CVE-2023-45133, CVE-2022-25883, CVE-2023-44270)

Summary

JavaScript libraries postcss, semver, and babel-traverse are used by IBM Storage Fusion’s Web Interface. Vulnerabilities in these libraries could lead to Denial of Service and Arbitrary Code Injection as described the the CVEs listed in the “Vulnerability Details” section.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-45133
**DESCRIPTION:**Babel could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw in the path.evaluate()or path.evaluateTruthy(). By using a specially crafted code to compile, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268647 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-25883
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js semver package is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the new Range function. By providing specially crafted regex input, 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/258647 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-2023-44270
**DESCRIPTION:**PostCSS could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper input validaiton. By using a specially crafted external Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause \r discrepancies in linters.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/267473 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.

• Upgrade to IBM Storage Fusion 2.7.0
• Link to fix: <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7050643&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None