Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Operator and Queue manager container images are vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities from Golang Go, libxml2, curl, expat, libgcrypt and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty

Summary

Multiple issues were identified in Red Hat UBI(ubi8/ubi-minimal) v8.6-x packages [Golang Go, libxml2, curl, expat ,libgcrypt and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty] that were shipped with IBM MQ Operator and IBM supplied MQ Advanced container images.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-24921
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By using a specially-crafted deeply nested expression, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a goroutine stack exhaustion, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/221503 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-2022-27782
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an easy connection reuse flaw for TLS and SSH. By sending a specially-crafted request using the connections in a connection pool, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/226252 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-27776
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when asked to send custom headers or cookies in its HTTP requests. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain authentication or cookie header data information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/225296 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-2022-29824
**DESCRIPTION:GNOME libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflows in several buffer handling functions in buf.c (xmlBuf) and tree.c (xmlBuffer). By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted XML 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/225645 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-2022-27774
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the “same host check” feature during a cross protocol redirects. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain credentials information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/225294 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-2022-22576
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper authentication validation when reuse OAUTH2-authenticated connections. By sending a specially-crafted request using user + “other OAUTH2 bearer”, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access authentication validation.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/225291 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-25313
**DESCRIPTION:**libexpat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by stack exhaustion in build_model. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a large nesting depth in the DTD element to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/219947 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-2022-25314
**DESCRIPTION:**libexpat could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in the copyString function. By sending an overly-long argument, an attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/219946 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-2022-28327
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validaiton by the generic P-256 feature in crypto/elliptic. By sending a specially-crafted request with long scalar input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224871 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-2022-24675
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in encoding/pem in the Decode feature. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the program to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224866 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-2022-22393
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 22.0.0.5 , with the adminCenter-1.0 feature configured, could allow an authenticated user to issue a request to obtain the status of HTTP/HTTPS ports which are accessible by the application server. IBM X-Force ID: 222078.
CVSS Base score: 3.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222078 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-22475
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty and Open Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 22.0.0.5 are vulnerable to identity spoofing by an authenticated user. IBM X-Force ID: 225603.
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/225603 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2022-29526
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the Faccessat function when called with a non-zero flags parameter. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain accessible file information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229593 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2021-40528
**DESCRIPTION:**GnuPG Libgcrypt could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw in the ElGamal implementation. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform a cross-configuration attack against OpenPGP.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/208744 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Issues listed by this security bulletin are addressed in IBM MQ Operator 2.0.1 LTS release that included IBM supplied MQ Advanced 9.3.0.0-r2 LTS container images and IBM MQ Operator 1.3.6 EUS release that included IBM supplied MQ Advanced 9.2.0.6-r1-eus container images.

IBM MQ Operator 2.0.1 LTS release details:

IBM MQ Operator V.R.M EUS release details:

Workarounds and Mitigations

None