Security Bulletin: IBM Observability with Instana for Synthetic PoP is affected by Multiple Security Vulnerabilities

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities were addressed in IBM Observability with Instana for Synthetic PoP build 274

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-40897
**DESCRIPTION:**Pypa Setuptools is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending request with a specially crafted regular expression, an remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/243028 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-2024-25710
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop flaw. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted DUMP file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/283472 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2024-26308
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out of memory error. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted Pack200 file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/283469 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2024-4067
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js micromatch module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in micromatch.braces() in index.js. By sending a specially crafted payload, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to increase the consumption time until the application hangs or slows down.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/290676 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-2024-28863
**DESCRIPTION:**isaacs node-tar is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the lack of folders count validation. By sending a specially crafted request, an 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/286169 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2024-4068
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js braces module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to limit the number of characters it can handle. leading to a memory exhaustion in lib/parse.js. By sending imbalanced braces as input, the parsing will enter a loop causing the JavaScript heap limit to be reached, and the program will crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/290675 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

IBM strongly recommends addressing these vulnerabilities now by updating IBM Observability with Instana for Synthetic PoP to the latest release as described here:

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=saas-build-274#synthetic-monitoring-1&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None