Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by multiple vulnerabilities

Summary

IBM Security Guardium has addressed these vulnerabilities with updates.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-34054
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Reactor Netty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when built-in integration with Micrometer is enabled. By sending specially crafted HTTP requests, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/272536 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-2023-47709
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Security Guardium could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system by sending a specially crafted request.
CVSS Base score: 9.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/271524 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-5870
**DESCRIPTION:**PostgreSQL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the pg_signal_backend role. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 2.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/271227 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-34062
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Reactor Netty could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by improper validation of user request. An attacker could send a specially crafted URL request containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to view arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/271850 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-2023-34059
**DESCRIPTION:**open-vm-tools could provide weaker than expected security, caused by a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to simulate user inputs.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/269798 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-47712
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Security Guardium could allow a local user to gain elevated privileges on the system due to improper permissions control.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/271527 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-2023-34058
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tools could allow a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a SAML token signature bypass flaw. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevate privileges within the virtual machine.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/269737 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-47711
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Security Guardium could allow an authenticated user to upload files that would cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 2.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/271526 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-5367
**DESCRIPTION:**X.Org X Server could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds write flaw in XIChangeDeviceProperty/RRChangeOutputProperty. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/269583 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-2023-5869
**DESCRIPTION:**PostgreSQL is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the SQL array values. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/271226 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None