Security Bulletin: IBM Operational Decision Manager for December 2023 - Multiple CVEs addressed

Summary

IBM Operational Decision Manager is vulnerable to multiple remote code execution and denial of service attacks in third party and open source used in the product for various functions. See full list below. The vulnerabilities have been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-37920
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified error with the removal of e-Tugra root certificate in Certifi has an unknown impact and attack vector.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/261639 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-2023-29406
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper contents validation of Host header by the HTTP/1 client. By persuading a victim to visit a specially crafted Web page, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary HTTP headers, which will allow the attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/260573 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-29402
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the generation of unexpected code at build time when using cgo. 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/257652 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-2023-29403
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a flaw when a binary is run with the setuid/setgid bits. By sending a specially crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges. to read or write contents of the registers.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257653 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-29404
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw when running “go get” on a malicious module. By sending a specially crafted request using linker flags, 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/257654 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-2023-29405
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw when running “go get” on a malicious module. By sending a specially crafted request using linker flags, 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/257655 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-2023-32681
**DESCRIPTION:**python-requests could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the leaking of Proxy-Authorization headers to destination servers during redirects to an HTTPS origin. By persuading a victim to click on a specially crafted URL, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/256114 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)

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-2021-33503
**DESCRIPTION:**urllib3 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw due to catastrophic backtracking. By sending a specially-crafted URL request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/203109 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-2019-11235
**DESCRIPTION:**FreeRadius could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper validation of the elliptic curve point. By sending a specially-crafted EAP-PWD Commit frame, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions and authenticate as the victim.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/160039 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-2454
**DESCRIPTION:**PostgreSQL could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw in CREATE SCHEMA … schema_element. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code as the bootstrap superuser on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/256215 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-2455
**DESCRIPTION:**PostgreSQL could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw with row security policies disregard user ID changes after inlining. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to allow incorrect policies to be applied.
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/256218 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-2602
**DESCRIPTION:**libcap is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak flaw in the error handling in the __wrap_pthread_create() function. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust the process memory, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 0
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255345 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-2603
**DESCRIPTION:**libcap could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in the _libcap_strdup() function. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255359 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-2828
**DESCRIPTION:**ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw that allows the named’s configured cache size limit to be significantly exceeded. By querying the resolver for specific RRsets in a certain order, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all memory on the host.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258607 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-2023-27536
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a GSS delegation too eager connection re-use flaw. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to reuse a previously created connection even when the GSS delegation.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/250531 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-28321
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw when listed as “Subject Alternative Name” in TLS server certificates. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to accept mismatch wildcard patterns.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255625 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-28484
**DESCRIPTION:**GNOME libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the xmlSchemaFixupComplexType function. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted XML content, 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/253138 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-2023-29469
**DESCRIPTION:**GNOME libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a double free flaw in the xmlDictComputeFastKey function due to hashing empty strings are not null-terminated. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted XML content, 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/253143 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-2014-0107
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Xalan-Java could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the improper handling of output properties. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the secure processing feature to load arbitrary restricted classes.
CVSS Base score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92023 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-34169
**DESCRIPTION:**The Apache Xalan Java XSLT library could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer truncation issue when processing malicious XSLT stylesheets. By using specially crafted XSLT stylesheets, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/231489 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-2023-3899
**DESCRIPTION:**Red Hat Enterprise Linux could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by improper authorization by the subscription-manager. By sending a specially crafted request through D-Bus interface com.redhat.RHSM1, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges to an unconfined root.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/264328 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-34462
**DESCRIPTION:**Netty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw with allocating up to 16MB of heap for each channel during the TLS handshake the SniHandler class. By sending a specially crafted client hello packet, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a OutOfMemoryError and so result in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258713 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-2022-48337
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU Emacs could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by a flaw in the lib-src/etags.c. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/248046 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-48339
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU Emacs could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by a flaw in the hfy-istext-command function. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/248054 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-44487
**DESCRIPTION:**Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in handling multiplexed streams in the HTTP/2 protocol. By sending numerous HTTP/2 requests and RST_STREAM frames over multiple streams, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service due to server resource consumption.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268044 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-2023-22045
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the VM component could allow a remote attacker to cause low confidentiality impacts.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/261047 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-22049
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Libraries component could allow a remote attacker to cause low integrity impacts.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/261048 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.10.5.1:
Interim fix 049 is available from IBM Fix Central:

• 8.10.5.1-WS-ODM_K8S-PPC64LE-IF049
• 8.10.5.1-WS-ODM_K8S-LIN_X86-IF049
• 8.10.5.1-WS-ODM_DS-IF049

IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.11.0.1:
Interim fix 026 is available from IBM Fix Central:

• 8.11.0.1-WS-ODM_K8S-PPC64LE-IF026
• 8.11.0.1-WS-ODM_K8S-LIN_S390-IF026
• 8.11.0.1-WS-ODM_K8S-LIN_X86-IF026

IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.11.1:
Interim fix 018 is available:

• 8.11.1.0-WS-ODM-IF018:
  • IBM Fix Central Download link
• ODM Chart 22.2.18 based on ODM 8.11.1.0-IF018
  • ibm-odm-prod-22.2.18.tgz Helm Chart Download link
  • ibm-odm-prod-1.5.18 CASE Download link

IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.12.0:
Interim fix 008 is available:

• 8.12.0.0-WS-ODM-IF008:
  • IBM Fix Central Download link
• ODM Chart 23.1.8 based on ODM 8.12.0.0-IF008
  • ibm-odm-prod-23.1.8.tgz Helm Chart Download link
  • ibm-odm-prod-1.6.8 CASE Download link

Workarounds and Mitigations

None