Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Security is vulnerable to using components with known vulnerabilities

Summary

IBM Cloud Pak for Security is vulnerable to using components with known vulnerabilities. These components have been updated in the latest release and the vulnerabilities have been addressed. Please follow the instructions in the Remediation/Fixes section below to update to the latest version of Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-23219
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU C Library (aka glibc) is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the clnt_create function in the sunrpc module. By sending a specially-crafted hostname argument, a local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217303 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-23218
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU C Library (aka glibc) is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the svcunix_create function in the sunrpc module. By sending a specially-crafted path argument, a local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217302 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2021-3999
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU glibc is vulnerable to an off-by-one buffer overflow and underflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the getcwd() function. By sending a specially-crafted request, a local authenticated attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217981 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-23308
**DESCRIPTION:**libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free in the ID and IDREF attributes. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/220772 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-2022-21540
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the VM component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information resulting in a low confidentiality impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/231567 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-2018-25032
**DESCRIPTION:**Zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory corruption in the deflate operation. By using many distant matches, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222615 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-2022-1154
**DESCRIPTION:**Vim is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by a use-after-free in mbyte.c in utf_ptr2char. By sending a specially-crafted request, a local authenticated attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/223115 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-0413
**DESCRIPTION:**Vim could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free in the skipwhite function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/218421 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-0361
**DESCRIPTION:**Vim is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. By submitting a specially-crafted input, a local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/218216 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-0392
**DESCRIPTION:**Vim is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system, modify memory, or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/218430 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-2022-0359
**DESCRIPTION:**Vim is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted session file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/218214 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-2022-0318
**DESCRIPTION:**Vim is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217941 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-0261
**DESCRIPTION:**Vim is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 4.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217526 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2021-4122
**DESCRIPTION:**Cryptsetup could allow a physical attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the LUKS2 online reencryption is an optional extension. By modifying on-disk metadata to simulate decryption in progress with crashed (unfinished) reencryption step, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to decrypt part of the LUKS device to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217238 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2021-23177
**DESCRIPTION:**libarchive could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an improper link resolution flaw. By using a specially-crafted archive file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to change the ACL of a file on the system and gain elevated privileges.
CVSS Base score: 6.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222216 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2022-21541
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the VM component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, high integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/231568 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly.

Please upgrade to at least CP4S 1.10.3.0 following these instructions: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-security/1.10?topic=installing-upgrading-cloud-pak-security&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None