Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to Elastic Kibana vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-7016,CVE-2020-7017 )

Summary

IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to Elastic Kibana vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-7016
**DESCRIPTION:**Elastic Kibana is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a vulnerability in Timelion. By persuading a victim to visit a specially crafted URL, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available CPU resources.
CVSS Base score: 4.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/185992 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2020-7017
**DESCRIPTION:**Elastic Kibana is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by region map visualization. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious script into a Web page which would be executed in a victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the page is viewed. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim’s cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/185991 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Product defect fixes and security updates are only available for the two most recent Continuous Delivery (CD) update packages

• IBM Cloud Private 3.2.1
• IBM Cloud Private 3.2.2

For IBM Cloud Private 3.2.1, apply fix pack:

• IBM Cloud Private 3.2.1.2105

For IBM Cloud Private 3.2.2, apply fix pack:

• IBM Cloud Private 3.2.2.2105

For IBM Cloud Private 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.2.0:

• Upgrade to the latest Continuous Delivery (CD) update package, IBM Cloud Private 3.2.2.
• If required, individual product fixes can be made available between CD update packages for resolution of problems. Contact IBM support for assistance

Workarounds and Mitigations

None