Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Protect Server is susceptible to numerous vulnerabilities due to Golang Go (CVE-2023-45283, CVE-2023-45284)

Summary

Golang Go is used by the IBM Storage Protect Server OSSM component. Golang Go is vulnerable to loss of confidentiality and integrity of host system, caused by failure related with filepath and safefilepath packages. This bulletin identifies the steps to address the vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-45283
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by the failure to recognize paths with a ??\ prefix as a Root Local Device path prefix in the filepath and safefilepath package. An attacker could send a specially crafted URL request containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to view arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/270990 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-2023-45284
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could provide weaker than expected security, caused by the failure to correctly detect reserved device names in some cases by the IsLocal function in the filepath package. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to report “COM1”, and reserved names “COM” and “LPT” followed by superscript 1, 2, or 3 as local.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/270989 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerabilities now by upgrading.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None