Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities in CloudPak for Watson AIOPs

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities were fixed in IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps version 3.7.2

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-20863
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Spring Framework is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending a specially crafted SpEL expression, 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/252807 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-2023-2602
**DESCRIPTION:**libcap is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak flaw in the error handling in the __wrap_pthread_create() function. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust the process memory, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 0
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255345 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-2603
**DESCRIPTION:**libcap could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in the _libcap_strdup() function. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255359 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-27561
**DESCRIPTION:**Open Container Initiative runc could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by improper access control in libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. By sending a specially-crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges to run custom images.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/249173 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-2251
**DESCRIPTION:**YAML is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncaught exception in the parseDocument and parseAllDocuments functions. By sending a specially crafted input, 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/253642 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-2023-28642
**DESCRIPTION:**runc could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a symbolic link following vulnerability. By creating a symbolic link inside a container to the /proc directory, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass AppArmor and SELinux protections.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251539 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-29013
**DESCRIPTION:**Traefik is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in HTTP header parsing. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/252995 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-38023
**DESCRIPTION:**Microsoft Windows could allow a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a flaw in the Netlogon RPC. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238862 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-2023-25809
**DESCRIPTION:**runc is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper access control in the /sys/fs/cgroup endpoint. A local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 2.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251498 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly suggests that you address the vulnerabilities now for all affected products/versions listed above by installing Fix:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cloud-pak-watson-aiops/3.7.2?topic=upgrading

Workarounds and Mitigations

None