Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Pallets Werkzeug, urlib3 and Cryptography [CVE-2023-46136, CVE-2023-45803, CVE-2023-49083]

Summary

IBM Storage Protect Plus Microsoft File Systems Backup and Restore can be affected by vulnerabilities in Pallets Werkzeug, urlib3 and Cryptography which include denial of service and obtain sensitive information, as described by the CVEs in the “Vulnerability Details” section. These vulnerabilities have been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-46136
**DESCRIPTION:**Pallets Werkzeug is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when parsing multipart/form-data containing a large part with CR/LF character at the beginning. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/269739 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-45803
**DESCRIPTION:**urllib3 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw with not remove the HTTP request body when an HTTP redirect response using status 303. 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: 4.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/269079 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-49083
**DESCRIPTION:**Cryptography package for Python is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference when loading PKCS7 certificates. By deserializing a specially crafted PKCS7 blob/certificate, 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/272510 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Workarounds and Mitigations

None