Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in Python affects PowerKVM

Summary

PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in Python. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2019-9636 DESCRIPTION: Python urllib.parse.urlsplit and urllib.parse.urlparse components could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by improper unicode encoding handling in NFKC normalization. By using a specially-crafted URL, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/158114&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

PowerKVM 3.1

Remediation/Fixes

Customers can update PowerKVM systems by using “yum update”.

Fix images are made available via Fix Central. For version 3.1, see https://ibm.biz/BdHggw. This issue is addressed starting with v3.1.0.2 update 18.

Workarounds and Mitigations

none