Security Bulletin: IBM MaaS360 Cloud Extender Agent and Base Module uses libcurl with multiple known vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-32205, CVE-2022-32206, CVE-2022-32207, CVE-2022-32208)

Summary

Vulnerabilities contained within libcurl (a 3rd party component) were identified and remediated in the IBM MaaS360 Cloud Extender Agent and Base Module.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-32205
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an issue with the ability to set excessive amounts of Set-Cookie: headers in a HTTP response to curl by a server. By persuading a victim to connect a specially-crafted server, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to create requests that become larger than the threshold, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229739 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2022-32206
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the number of acceptable “links” in the “chained” HTTP compression algorithms. By persuading a victim to connect a specially-crafted server, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229740 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2022-32207
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by improper preservation of permissions when saving cookies, alt-svc and hsts data to local files. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive 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/229741 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-2022-32208
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by a flaw in the handling of message verification failures. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a man-in-the-middle attack and gain access to the communication channel between endpoints to inject data to the client…
CVSS Base score: 3.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229742 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly.

• Update the IBM MaaS360 Cloud Extender to version 2.106.650.002 or greater.
• Apply the IBM Base Module to version 2.106.650 or greater

The latest Cloud Extender agent is available within the MaaS360 Administrator Portal.

Instructions to upgrade the Agent and apply modules is located on this IBM Documentation page.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None