Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Moby BuildKit affect IBM watsonx.data

Summary

Moby BuildKit could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, or allow a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system. These can affect IBM watsonx.data.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-23651
**DESCRIPTION:**Moby BuildKit could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a race condition. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause files from the host system being accessible to the build container.
CVSS Base score: 8.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/281106 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2024-23652
**DESCRIPTION:**Moby BuildKit could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially crafted request to remove arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 10
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/281107 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2024-23653
**DESCRIPTION:**Moby BuildKit could allow a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by improper validation of entitlements check in Interactive containers API. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to run a container with elevated privileges.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/281108 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

The product needs to be installed or upgraded to the latest available level watsonx.data 2.0.2 or watsonx.data on CPD 5.0.2. Installation/upgrade instructions can be found here: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/watsonxdata/2.0.x?topic=deployment-installing&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None