Security Bulletin: IBM Observability with Instana (OnPrem) affected by OpenSSL vulnerabilities.

Summary

IBM Observability with Instana (OnPrem) has addressed the following OpenSSL vulnerabilities in it’s self-hosted Docker-based installer: CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-3602
**DESCRIPTION:**OpenSSL is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking during X.509 certificate verification. By using a specially-crafted email address, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239161 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-2022-3786
**DESCRIPTION:**OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack based buffer overflow during X.509 certificate verification. By using a specially-crafted email address in a certificate, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a TLS client to crash, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239165 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Update your existing Docker-based installation of IBM Observability with Instana (OnPrem) as described here: <https://www.instana.com/docs/self_hosted_instana/operations#upgrade-your-container-based-installation&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None