Security Bulletin: There are multiple vulnerabilites that affect IBM Engineering Requirements Quality Assistant On-Premises

Summary

IBM Engineering Requirements Quality Assistant On-Premises affected by multiple vulnerabilities due to which an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system and cause the application to crash cause a denial of service condition on the system. This vulnerability could poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks (CVE-2021-43138, CVE-2022-37599, CVE-2022-37601, CVE-2017-1000048, CVE-2021-44907, CVE-2021-22959, CVE-2022-24999, CVE-2021-39135, CVE-2022-25878, CVE-2022-0235, CVE-2020-15168, CVE-2022-33987).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-43138
**DESCRIPTION:**Async could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by prototype pollution in the mapValues() method. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/223605 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-37599
**DESCRIPTION:**loader-utils is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the interpolateName.js script. By sending specially-crafted regex input, 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/238443 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-2022-37601
**DESCRIPTION:**webpack loader-utils could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a prototype pollution flaw in the parseQuery function in parseQuery.js. By adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype using a proto or constructor payload, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service condition on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238763 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-2017-1000048
**DESCRIPTION:**Ljharb qs is vulnerable to a denial of service. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/130305 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-2021-44907
**DESCRIPTION:**Qs is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by insufficient sanitization of property in the gs.parse function. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222194 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-2021-22959
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by an error related to a space in headers. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted request with a space (SP) right after the header name before the colon to lead to HTTP Request Smuggling (HRS). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/211168 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-24999
**DESCRIPTION:**Express.js Express is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a prototype pollution flaw in qs. By adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype using a proto or constructor payload, 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/240815 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-2021-39135
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js @npmcli/arborist module could allow a local attacker to launch a symlink attack. By replacing the node_modules folder of the root project or any of its dependencies with a symbolic link, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to write package dependencies to any arbitrary location on the file system.
CVSS Base score: 8.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/208464 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-25878
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js protobufjs module could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a prototype pollution flaw. By adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype using a proto or constructor payload, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service condition on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/227327 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2022-0235
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js node-fetch could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when fetching a remote url with Cookie. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217758 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2020-15168
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js node-fetch module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to honor the size option after following a redirect. By using a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume excessive resource on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/188155 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-2022-33987
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js got module could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an unspecified. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform a redirect to a UNIX socket.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229246 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)

**IBM X-Force ID:**212233
**DESCRIPTION:**d3-color is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending a specially-crafted string that starts with the letter ‘A’ to the rgb() and hrc() functions, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a regular expression denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/212233 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

For all the IBM Engineering Quality Assistant On-Premises versions please go and follow the steps mentioned for Upgrading RQA to apply the remediation.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None