Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities present in IBM Answer Retrieval for Watson Discovery versions 2.13 and earlier

Summary

This fix upgrades to node 18.18.0 and grpc 1.58.0.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-4785
**DESCRIPTION:**Google gRPC is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a lack of error handling in the TCP server on posix-compatible platforms. By initiating a significant number of connections with the server, 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/265913 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-2023-32558
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the use of the deprecated API process.binding(). By using a path traversal sequence, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the permission model.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262900 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-2023-32003
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a missing getValidatedPath() check in the fs.mkdtemp() and fs.mkdtempSync() APIs. By using a path traversal attack, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the permission model check and create an arbitrary directory.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262904 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-2023-32006
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the use of module.constructor.createRequire(). By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the permission policy mechanism.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262901 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-2023-32559
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the use of the deprecated API process.binding(). By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the permission policy mechanism.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262902 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-2023-32005
**DESCRIPTION:*Node.js could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to restrict file stats through the fs.statfs API in the permission model. By using the --allow-fs-read flag with a non- argument, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to retrieve stats from files that they do not have explicit read access to.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262903 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-2023-32002
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the use of Module._load(). By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the permission policy mechanism.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262896 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-2023-32004
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the improper handling of Buffers in file system APIs within the experimental permission model. By specifying a path traversal sequence in a Buffer, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a path traversal bypass when verifying file permissions.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262899 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Workarounds and Mitigations

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