Security Bulletin: Netcool Operations Insights 1.6.11 addresses multiple security vulnerabilities.

Summary

Netcool Operations Insight v1.6.11 addresses multiple security vulnerabilities, listed in the CVEs below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-34453
**DESCRIPTION:**snappy-java is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow in the shuffle function. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258186 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-34454
**DESCRIPTION:**snappy-java is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow in the compress function. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258188 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-2023-34455
**DESCRIPTION:**snappy-java is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the use of an unchecked chunk length in the hasNextChunk function. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258190 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-2023-30588
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by invalid public key information in x509 certificates. By accessing public key info of provided certificates from user code, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to force interruptions of application processing and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258623 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-2023-45133
**DESCRIPTION:**Babel could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw in the path.evaluate()or path.evaluateTruthy(). By using a specially crafted code to compile, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268647 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-32005
**DESCRIPTION:*Node.js could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to restrict file stats through the fs.statfs API in the permission model. By using the --allow-fs-read flag with a non- argument, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to retrieve stats from files that they do not have explicit read access to.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262903 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-32006
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the use of module.constructor.createRequire(). By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the permission policy mechanism.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262901 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-32003
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a missing getValidatedPath() check in the fs.mkdtemp() and fs.mkdtempSync() APIs. By using a path traversal attack, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the permission model check and create an arbitrary directory.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262904 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-32558
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the use of the deprecated API process.binding(). By using a path traversal sequence, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the permission model.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262900 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-2023-32559
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the use of the deprecated API process.binding(). By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the permission policy mechanism.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262902 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-32002
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the use of Module._load(). By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the permission policy mechanism.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262896 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-2023-32004
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the improper handling of Buffers in file system APIs within the experimental permission model. By specifying a path traversal sequence in a Buffer, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a path traversal bypass when verifying file permissions.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262899 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-2023-24329
**DESCRIPTION:**Python could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw in the urllib.parse component. By sending a specially-crafted request using URL starts with blank characters, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass blocklisting methods.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247730 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-2022-41723
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the HPACK decoder. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP/2 stream, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause excessive CPU consumption, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247965 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-2022-41724
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when processing large TLS handshake records. By sending specially-crafted TLS handshake records, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/248257 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-41725
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when perform multipart form parsing with mime/multipart.Reader.ReadForm. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume largely unlimited amounts of memory and disk files, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/248957 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2020-8908
**DESCRIPTION:**Guava could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a temp directory creation vulnerability in com.google.common.io.Files.createTempDir(). By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/192996 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2020-8244
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js bl module could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a buffer over-read flaw in the consume function. By sending a specially-crafted argument, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 8.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/187518 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-34040
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Spring for Apache Kafka could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe deserialization flaw. By using a specially crafted configuration, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/264439 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2021-41182
**DESCRIPTION:**jQuery jQuery-UI is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the Datepicker widget. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the altField parameter 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: 7.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/212274 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2021-41183
**DESCRIPTION:**jQuery jQuery-UI is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the Datepicker widget. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the Text parameter 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: 7.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/212276 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2021-41184
**DESCRIPTION:**jQuery jQuery-UI is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the .position() function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the of parameter 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: 7.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/212277 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-31160
**DESCRIPTION:**jQuery UI is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the check-box-radio widget. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted URL to execute script in a victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. 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/231462 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2019-20916
**DESCRIPTION:**pypa pip package for python could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by a flaw when installing package via a specified URL. An attacker could use a specially-crafted Content-Disposition header with filename containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to overwrite arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/187855 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2021-3572
**DESCRIPTION:**pip package for python could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the improper handling of Unicode separators in git references. By creating a specially crafted tag, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to install a different revision on a repository.
CVSS Base score: 4.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/208954 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-3635
**DESCRIPTION:**Okio GzipSource is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by unhandled exception. By sending a specially crafted gzip buffer, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/260866 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-2023-43642
**DESCRIPTION:**snappy-java is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by missing upper bound check on chunk length. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/267079 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-2022-1471
**DESCRIPTION:**SnakeYaml could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe deserialization in the Constructor class. By using a specially-crafted yaml content, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241118 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2022-46751
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Ivy could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by improper handling of XML external entity (XXE) declarations by the XML parser. By using a specially crafted XML content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exfiltrate data, access resources only the machine running Ivy has access to or disturb the execution of Ivy.
CVSS Base score: 8.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/264003 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-36617
**DESCRIPTION:**RubyGems uri gem is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the URI parser. By sending a specially crafted regex input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/259404 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-2023-2828
**DESCRIPTION:**ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw that allows the named’s configured cache size limit to be significantly exceeded. By querying the resolver for specific RRsets in a certain order, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all memory on the host.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258607 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-2023-34981
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when a response did not have any HTTP headers set. By sending a specially crafted HTTP 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/258638 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-2023-41080
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks, caused by an open redirect vulnerability in the FORM authentication feature. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted URL to redirect a victim to arbitrary Web sites.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/264483 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

**IBM X-Force ID:**254437
**DESCRIPTION:**Jose4J could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a chosen ciphertext attack in RSA1_5. By using cryptographic attack techniques, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to decrypt RSA1_5 or RSA_OAEP encrypted ciphertexts.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/254437 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)

**IBM X-Force ID:**233967
**DESCRIPTION:**Maven OkHttp package could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the inclusion of sensitive information in an error message. By sending a specially-crafted request using an illegal character in a header value, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an IllegalArgumentException whose message includes the full header value.
CVSS Base score: 8.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233967 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly suggests the following remediation / fixes:

Netcool Operations Insight v1.6.11 can be deployed on-premises, on a supported cloud platform, or on a hybrid cloud and on-premises architecture.

Please go to <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/noi/1.6.11?topic=installing&gt; to follow the installation instructions relevant to your chosen architecture.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None