Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation 2.4.7 fixes multiple security vulnerabilities

Summary

IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation 2.4.7 fixes multiple security vulnerabilities, listed in the CVEs below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-24538
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the failure to properly consider backticks (`) as Javascript string delimiters. By sending a specially crafted request, 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/252178 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-2023-28859
**DESCRIPTION:**Redis redis-py could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw with leaving a connection open after canceling an async Redis command at an inopportune time. 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: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251077 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-28858
**DESCRIPTION:**Redis redis-py could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw with leaving a connection open after canceling an async Redis command at an inopportune time. 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: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251076 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-28841
**DESCRIPTION:**Moby could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the missing of encrypted sensitive data within the overlay network driver. 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: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251928 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-24537
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop due to integer overflow when calling any of the Parse functions. By sending a specially crafted 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/252177 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-2023-28840
**DESCRIPTION:**Moby is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an unprotected alternate channel within encrypted overlay networks. By sending a specially crafted request to inject arbitrary Ethernet frames into the encrypted overlay network, 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/251927 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-32309
**DESCRIPTION:**PyMdown Extensions could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by improper validation of user request. An attacker could send a specially crafted URL request containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to view arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255365 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-2022-41717
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when handling HTTP/2 requests in the Go server. By sending a specially-crafted keys, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause excessive memory growth, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241875 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-2022-41716
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper checking for invalid environment variable values in syscall.StartProcess and os/exec.Cmd. By using a specially-crafted environment variable value, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to set a value for a different environment variable.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240206 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-2022-35255
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js could provide weaker than expected security, caused by the failure to check the return value after calls are made to EntropySource() in SecretKeyGenTraits::DoKeyGen() in src/crypto/crypto_keygen.cc. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236965 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-28842
**DESCRIPTION:**Moby could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an unprotected alternate channel within encrypted overlay networks. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary Ethernet frames into the encrypted overlay network by encapsulating them in VXLAN datagrams.
CVSS Base score: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251929 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-1436
**DESCRIPTION:**Jettison is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite recursion when constructing a JSONArray from a Collection that contains a self-reference in one of its elements. 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/250490 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-2023-2251
**DESCRIPTION:**YAML is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncaught exception in the parseDocument and parseAllDocuments functions. By sending a specially crafted 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/253642 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-2022-32149
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation by the golang.org/x/text/language package. By sending a specially-crafted Accept-Language header, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause ParseAcceptLanguage to take significant time to parse, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238605 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-2023-24999
**DESCRIPTION:**HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when using the approle auth method. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to destroy the secret ID of any other role, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 4.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/249893 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-0665
**DESCRIPTION:**HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper authorization in the PKI mount issuer endpoints. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251560 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-0620
**DESCRIPTION:**HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise is vulnerable to SQL injection. A local authenticated attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements to the Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) Database Storage Backend, which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251563 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25000
**DESCRIPTION:**HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the use of precomputed table lookups in the Shamir implementation. By utilize cache-timing attack techniques, 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: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251508 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

As per CVEs listed above

IBM strongly suggests the following remediation / fixes:

IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation 2.4.7 can be deployed on-premises.

Please go to <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-network-auto/2.4.x&gt; to follow the installation instructions relevant to your chosen architecture.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None. Upgrade to the latest version.