Security Bulletin: IBM Instana Observability is affected by Vulnerabilities in Golang GO and VMware Tanzu Spring Framework

Summary

Vulnerabilities in GolangGo and VMware Tanzu Spring Framework were remediated in IBM Observability with Instana build 261.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-29405
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw when running “go get” on a malicious module. By sending a specially crafted request using linker flags, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257655 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-2023-20860
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Spring Framework could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the use of an un-prefixed double wildcard pattern with the mvcRequestMatcher in Spring Security configuration. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to create a mismatch in pattern matching between Spring Security and Spring MVC.
CVSS Base score: 9.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/250679 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing these vulnerabilities now by updating IBM Observability with Instana (Self-hosted on Docker) to the latest release as described here:

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None