Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation iFixes for March 2024.

Summary

In addition to OS level package updates, multiple security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation 21.0.3-IF031 and 23.0.2-IF003.

Vulnerability Details

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)

CVEID:CVE-2024-22319
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Operational Decision Manager 8.10.3, 8.10.4, 8.10.5.1, 8.11, 8.11.0.1, 8.11.1 and 8.12.0.1 is susceptible to remote code execution attack via JNDI injection when passing an unchecked argument to a certain API. IBM X-Force ID: 279145.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/279145 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2014-0107
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Xalan-Java could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the improper handling of output properties. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the secure processing feature to load arbitrary restricted classes.
CVSS Base score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92023 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-34169
**DESCRIPTION:**The Apache Xalan Java XSLT library could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer truncation issue when processing malicious XSLT stylesheets. By using specially crafted XSLT stylesheets, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/231489 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-2023-48795
**DESCRIPTION:**OpenSSH is vulnerable to a machine-in-the-middle attack, caused by a flaw in the extension negotiation process in the SSH transport protocol when used with certain OpenSSH extensions. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a machine-in-the-middle attack and strip an arbitrary number of messages after the initial key exchange, breaking SSH extension negotiation and downgrading the client connection security.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/275282 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-3094
**DESCRIPTION:**ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the allocation of memory prior to the checking of access permissions (ACLs). By sending an UPDATE message flood, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause named to exhaust all available memory.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/245430 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-2023-22081
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the JSSE component could allow a remote attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, no integrity impact, and low availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268929 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-2023-22067
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the CORBA component could allow a remote attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268928 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-2023-5676
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse OpenJ9 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when a shutdown signal (SIGTERM, SIGINT or SIGHUP) is received before the JVM has finished initializing. By sending a specially crafted request, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an infinite busy hang on a spinlock or a segmentation fault.
CVSS Base score: 4.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/271615 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2024-20952
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Security component could allow a remote 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/279685 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-2024-20918
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the VM component could allow a remote 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/279718 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-2024-20921
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the VM 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/279734 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-2024-20919
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the VM component could allow a remote attacker to cause high integrity impact.
CVSS Base score: 4.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/279785 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2024-20926
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Scripting 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/279716 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-2024-20945
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the VM component could allow a local authenticated attacker to cause high confidentiality impact.
CVSS Base score: 4.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/279775 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-33850
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM GSKit-Crypto could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a timing-based side channel in the RSA Decryption implementation. By sending an overly large number of trial messages for decryption, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 257132.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257132 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-2023-6267
**DESCRIPTION:**Quarkus could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe deserialization in the json payload when annotation based security is used to secure a REST resource. By sending specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/280942 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-5675
**DESCRIPTION:**Quarkus could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper authorization validation when “quarkus.security.jaxrs.deny-unannotated-endpoints” or “quarkus.security.jaxrs.default-roles-allowed” properties are used. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/280941 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-2023-39418
**DESCRIPTION:**PostgreSQL could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by failing to enforce UPDATE or SELECT row security policies in MERGE command. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 3.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/263358 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2007-4559
**DESCRIPTION:**Python could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by a vulnerability in the tarfile module. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted .TAR file containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) in the filename, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files on the system with the victim’s privileges.
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36366 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2024-26308
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out of memory error. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted Pack200 file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/283469 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-2024-25710
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop flaw. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted DUMP file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/283472 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-2023-50959
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Business Automation Workflow may allow end users to query more documents than expected from a connected Enterprise Content Management system when configured to use a system account.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/275938 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-42282
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js IP package could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a server-side request forgery flaw in the ip.isPublic() function. By sending a specially crafted request using a hexadecimal representation of a private IP address, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system and obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/282923 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

Remediation/Fixes

Any open source library may be included in one or more sub-components of IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation. Open source updates are not always synchronized across all components. The CVE in this bulletin are specifically addressed by

Workarounds and Mitigations

None