Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Security includes components with multiple known vulnerabilities

Summary

IBM Cloud Pak for Security includes components with known vulnerabilities. These have been updated in the latest release and vulnerabilities have been addressed. Please follow the instructions in the Remediation/Fixes section below to update to the latest version of Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-41940
**DESCRIPTION:**Socket.IO Engine.IO is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncaught exception flaw. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the Node.js process to crash, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240852 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-2022-21676
**DESCRIPTION:**Engine.IO is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncaught exception on the Engine.IO server. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP request, 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/217345 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-2021-34141
**DESCRIPTION:**NumPy is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by incomplete string comparison in the numpy.core component. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to fail the APIs.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/215944 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-2022-24302
**DESCRIPTION:**Paramiko could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a race condition in the write_private_key_file function. 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: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222109 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-2021-37533
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Commons Net could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an issue with the FTP client trusts the host from PASV response by default. By persuading a victim to connect to specially-crafted server, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain information about services running on the private network, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241253 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly.

Please upgrade to at least CP4S 1.10.8.0 following these instructions: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-security/1.10?topic=installing-upgrading-cloud-pak-security&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None