Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to several issues due to the go compiler

Summary

Golang compiler is used by IBM Cloud Pak for Data to build various binaries. (CVE-2023-27561, CVE-2023-28642, CVE-2023-25809, CVE-2022-32149, CVE-2022-41723, CVE-2022-41721, CVE-2022-27664, CVE-2022-29162, CVE-2021-43784, CVE-2023-2517)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-27561
**DESCRIPTION:**Open Container Initiative runc could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by improper access control in libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. By sending a specially-crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges to run custom images.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/249173 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-2023-28642
**DESCRIPTION:**runc could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a symbolic link following vulnerability. By creating a symbolic link inside a container to the /proc directory, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass AppArmor and SELinux protections.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251539 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25809
**DESCRIPTION:**runc is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper access control in the /sys/fs/cgroup endpoint. A local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 2.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251498 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2022-32149
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation by the golang.org/x/text/language package. By sending a specially-crafted Accept-Language header, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause ParseAcceptLanguage to take significant time to parse, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238605 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-2022-41723
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the HPACK decoder. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP/2 stream, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause excessive CPU consumption, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247965 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-2022-41721
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by a flaw when using MaxBytesHandler. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP(S) transfer-encoding request header, 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/244775 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-2022-27664
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in net/http. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a closing HTTP/2 server connection to hang, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235355 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-2022-29162
**DESCRIPTION:**Open Container Initiative runc could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an issue with runc exec --cap executed processes with non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities. By executing specially-crafted programs, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/226393 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2021-43784
**DESCRIPTION:**Open Container Initiative runc could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an integer overflow in netlink bytemsg length field. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to override netlink-based container configuration to disable namespace protections entirely.
CVSS Base score: 6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/214558 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25173
**DESCRIPTION:**containerd could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper setup for supplementary groups inside a container. By sending a specially-crafted request using supplementary group access, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass primary group restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247778 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25153
**DESCRIPTION:**containerd is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory exhaustion flaw when importing an OCI image. By using a specially-crafted image with a large file, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247777 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2021-43816
**DESCRIPTION:**containerd could allow a remote authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a flaw in the backing container runtime interface (CRI) implementation. By sending a specially-crafted relabel request to match the container process label through the use of specially-configured bind mounts in a hostPath volume, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevates privileges for the container, granting full read/write access over the affected files and directories.
CVSS Base score: 8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216854 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-23648
**DESCRIPTION:**containerd could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the CRI implementation. By using a specially-crafted image configuration, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access to read-only copies of arbitrary files and directories on the host system, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/220823 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-2021-32760
**DESCRIPTION:**Containerd could allow a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by improper file permissions. By pulling and extracting a specially-crafted container image, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform Unix file permission changes for existing files in the host’s filesystem.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205942 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-2021-41103
**DESCRIPTION:**containerd could allow a local authenticated attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by improper restricted permissions on container root and plugin directories. An attacker could send a specially-crafted request containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to view directory contents and execute programs.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/210615 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2022-23471
**DESCRIPTION:**containerd is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the CRI implementation. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust memory on the host, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241615 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-31030
**DESCRIPTION:**containerd is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the CRI implementation. By sending a specially-crafted request using the ExecSync API, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause containerd to consume all available memory on the computer, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/228282 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

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IBM Cloud Pak for Data| 4.0.0-4.8.4

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.

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Version(s) number and/or range

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Remediation/Fix/Instructions

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IBM Cloud Pak for Data

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4.0.0-4.8.4

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Download 4.8.5 and follow instructions

Workarounds and Mitigations

None