Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in go.etcd.io/etcd package affects IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator on Cloud Pak for Data

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities in the go.etcd.io/etcd package affects IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator on Cloud Pak for Data. These vulnerabilities are fixed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-7919
**DESCRIPTION:**Go is vulnerable to a denial of service. By sending a malformed X.509 certificate, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a system panic.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/178227 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-2020-9283
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang golang.org/x/crypto is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error during signature verification in the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh package. By persuading a victim to run a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/176688 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-2020-29652
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh component. By sending a specially-crafted 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/193622 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-2021-38561
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go Text is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an improper index calculation that allows an incorrectly formatted language tag to panic Parse. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an out-of-bounds read and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/219760 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-2020-28852
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation while processing a BCP 47 tag in language.ParseAcceptLanguage. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP Accept-Language header, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a slice bounds out of range panic.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/194163 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-2020-28851
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation while parsing the -u- extension in language.ParseAcceptLanguage. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP Accept-Language header, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an index out of range panic.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/194162 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-2020-14040
**DESCRIPTION:**Go Language x/text package is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a vulnerability in encoding/unicode in the UTF-16 decoder. By sending a single byte to a UTF16 decoder, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/184313 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-2018-17142
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by invalid memory address in html package (aka x/net/html). By using a specially-crafted value, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a runtime error.
CVSS Base score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/149973 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2021-27918
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop flaw when using xml.NewTokenDecoder with a custom TokenReader. 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/198075 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-2018-17848
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an index out of range flaw during an html.Parse call in the html package. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/150633 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-2018-17846
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error during an html.Parse call in the html package. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/150630 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-2021-33194
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop in golang.org/x/net/html. By sending a specially-crafted ParseFragment input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/202644 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-2018-17143
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by invalid memory address in html package (aka x/net/html). By using a specially-crafted value, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a runtime error.
CVSS Base score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/149972 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2018-17847
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an index out of range flaw during an html.Parse call in the html package. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/150632 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-2018-1098
**DESCRIPTION:**etcd is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. By persuading an authenticated user to visit a malicious Web site, a remote attacker could send a malformed HTTP request to perform unauthorized actions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform cross-site scripting attacks, Web cache poisoning, and other malicious activities.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/141542 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2018-1099
**DESCRIPTION:**etcd could allow a remote attacker to gain access to the DNS records, caused by a DNS rebinding. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to rebind DNS records.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/141541 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-2019-11254
**DESCRIPTION:**Kubernetes is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in kube-apiserver. By sending a specially-crafted request using YAML payloads, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume excessive CPU cycles.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/178935 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-2019-11840
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang golang-googlecode-go-crypto could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the amd64 implementation of golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20 and golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20/salsa. By generating a specially-crafted keystream, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/160943 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2020-15112
**DESCRIPTION:**etcd is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the ReadAll method in wal/wal.go. By sending a specially crafted data, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a runtime panic.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/186328 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-2020-15113
**DESCRIPTION:**etcd could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the lack of permission checks in the os.MkdirAll function when a given directory path exists already. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/186327 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-2020-26160
**DESCRIPTION:**jwt-go could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a type assertion failure when m[“aud”] happens to be []string{}. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/189408 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-2020-29361
**DESCRIPTION:**p11-glue p11-kit are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by multiple integer overflows when allocating memory for arrays of attributes and object identifiers. By sending a specially-crafted request using realloc or calloc function, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/193532 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-2020-29362
**DESCRIPTION:**p11-glue p11-kit could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a heap-based buffer over-read flaw in the RPC protocol. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain up to 4 bytes of memory past the heap allocation, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/193533 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2020-29363
**DESCRIPTION:**p11-glue p11-kit is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a heap-based buffer overflow in the RPC protocol. By sending a serialized byte array in a CK_ATTRIBUTE, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/193534 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-2021-3121
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified error with the lack of certain index validation, aka the skippy peanut butter issue in GoGo Protobuf has an unknown impact and attack vector.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/194539 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-2021-3712
**DESCRIPTION:**OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an out-of-bounds read when processing ASN.1 strings. By sending specially crafted data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read contents of memory on the system or perform a denial of service attack.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/208073 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2021-37750
**DESCRIPTION:**MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference flaw in kdc/do_tgs_req.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC). By sending a specially-crafted FAST TGS request with no server field, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/208020 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-2021-44716
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled memory consumption in the header canonicalization cache in net/http. By sending HTTP/2 requests, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available memory resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216553 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-2022-21698
**DESCRIPTION:**Prometheus Go client library (client_golang ) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when handling requests with non-standard HTTP methods. By sending specially-crafted HTTP requests, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a memory exhaustion.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/219707 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-2022-27191
**DESCRIPTION:**Go ssh package is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an unspecified flaw in certain circumstances involving AddHostKey. By sending a specially-crafted 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/222162 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-2021-31525
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in net/http. By sending a specially-crafted header to ReadRequest or ReadResponse. Server, Transport, and Client, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a (panic) denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/202709 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-2017-3204
**DESCRIPTION:**Go SSH library is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by improper validation of host keys. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a man-in-the-middle attack and gain access to the communication channel between endpoints to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/128718 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2013-4402
**DESCRIPTION:**GnuPG is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the packet parser when parsing compressed packets with nested depth. By sending a specially-crafted packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87729 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVEID:CVE-2019-11841
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by a flaw in the clearsign package of supplementary Go cryptography libraries. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to spoof the messages.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/160985 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2021-43565
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an input validation flaw in golang.org/x/crypto’s readCipherPacket() function. By sending an empty plaintext packet to a program linked with golang.org/x/crypto/ssh, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/219761 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

To adress the vulnerability, upgrade to Watson Machine Learning Accelerator on Cloud Pak for Data version to the version 2.3.9 by following the end user document <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=accelerator-upgrading-watson-machine-learning-version-40&gt;

It is strongly suggested to upgrade to the latest version of Watson Machine Learning Accelerator on Cloud Pak for Data for more security fixes.

Upgrade Watson Machine Learning Accelerator on Cloud Pak for Data to the latest version by following the end user document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.8.x?topic=upgrading.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None