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Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Operator and Queue manager container images are vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities from systemd, libcap, openssl-libs, libxml2, go-toolset, and prometheus-operator

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Summary

Multiple issues were identified in Red Hat UBI packages systemd, libcap, openssl-libs, libxml2, go-toolset, and prometheus-operator that were shipped with IBM MQ Operator and IBM supplied MQ Advanced container images. IBM has addressed the vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2023-29403
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a flaw when a binary is run with the setuid/setgid bits. By sending a specially crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges. to read or write contents of the registers.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257653 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-2023-29404
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw when running "go get" on a malicious module. By sending a specially crafted request using linker flags, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257654 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-2023-29405
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw when running "go get" on a malicious module. By sending a specially crafted request using linker flags, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257655 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-2023-29402
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the generation of unexpected code at build time when using cgo. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257652 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-2023-28484
DESCRIPTION:   GNOME libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the xmlSchemaFixupComplexType function. 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/253138 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-2023-2602
DESCRIPTION:   libcap is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak flaw in the error handling in the __wrap_pthread_create() function. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust the process memory, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 0
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255345 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-0466
DESCRIPTION:   OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw in the X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy function. By using invalid certificate policies, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass certificate verification.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251307 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-2023-29469
DESCRIPTION:   GNOME libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a double free flaw in the xmlDictComputeFastKey function due to hashing empty strings are not null-terminated. 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/253143 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-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-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-2023-32681
DESCRIPTION:   python-requests could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the leaking of Proxy-Authorization headers to destination servers during redirects to an HTTPS origin. By persuading a victim to click on a specially crafted URL, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/256114 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-24536
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw during multipart form parsing. By sending a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume large amounts of CPU and memory, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/252176 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-2023-24537
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop due to integer overflow when calling any of the Parse functions. By sending a specially crafted 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/252177 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-2023-24540
DESCRIPTION:   Go is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code into a template containing whitespace characters outside of the character set "\t\n\f\r\u0020\u2028\u2029", which when viewed, would execute in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/256132 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-2023-24539
DESCRIPTION:   Go is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code into a template containing multiple actions separated by a '/' character, which when viewed, would execute in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/256136 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-29400
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code into the templates, which when parsed, would execute in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255427 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-2023-32731
DESCRIPTION:   gRPC could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when gRPC HTTP2 stack raised a header size exceeded error. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257688 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-2603
DESCRIPTION:   libcap could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in the _libcap_strdup() function. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255359 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-26604
DESCRIPTION:   systemd could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by the failure to set LESSSECURE to 1 in the configurations. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/249251 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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-2019-0205
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Thrift is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when processing untrusted Thrift payload. 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/169460 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-2020-15113
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)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM MQ Operator

CD:  v2.4.0,v2.4.1, v2.3.0 - 2.3.3, v2.2.0 - v2.2.2, 2.3.0 - 2.3.3

LTS: v2.0.0 - 2.0.13

IBM supplied MQ Advanced container images

CD: 9.2.0.1-r1-eus, 9.2.0.2-r1-eus, 9.2.0.2-r2-eus,
9.2.0.4-r1-eus, 9.2.0.5-r1-eus, 9.2.0.5-r2-eus, 9.2.0.5-r3-eus, 9.2.0.6-r1-eus, 9.2.0.6-r2-eus, 9.2.0.6-r3-eus, 9.2.3.0-r1, 9.2.4.0-r1, 9.2.5.0-r1, 9.2.5.0-r2, 9.2.5.0-r3, 9.3.0.0-r1, 9.3.0.0-r2, 9.3.0.0-r3, 9.3.0.1-r1, 9.3.0.1-r2, 9.3.0.1-r3, 9.3.0.1-r4,  9.3.0.3-r1,  9.3.0.4-r1, 9.3.0.4-r2,  9.3.0.5-r1, 9.3.0.5-r2, 9.3.0.5-r3,  9.3.0.6-r1,  9.3.1.0-r1, 9.3.1.0-r2, 9.3.1.0-r3,
9.3.1.1-r1, 9.3.2.0-r1, 9.3.2.0-r2, 9.3.2.1-r1, 9.3.2.1-r2,  9.3.3.0-r1, 9.3.3.0-r2


LTS:
9.2.0.1-r1-eus, 9.2.0.2-r1-eus, 9.2.0.2-r2-eus, 9.2.0.4-r1-eus, 9.2.0.5-r1-eus, 
9.2.0.5-r2-eus, 9.2.0.5-r3-eus, 9.2.0.6-r1-eus,  9.2.0.6-r2-eus, 9.2.0.6-r3-eus, 9.2.3.0-r1, 
9.2.4.0-r1, 9.2.5.0-r1, 9.2.5.0-r2, 9.2.5.0-r3, 9.3.0.0-r1, 9.3.0.0-r2, 9.3.0.0-r3, 9.3.0.1-r1, 
9.3.0.1-r2, 9.3.0.1-r3, 9.3.0.1-r4, 9.3.0.3-r1, 9.3.0.4-r1, 9.3.0.4-r2, 9.3.0.5-r1, 9.3.0.5-r2, 
9.3.0.5-r3, 9.3.0.6-r1

Remediation/Fixes

Issue mentioned by this security bulletin is addressed in IBM MQ Operator v2.4.2 CD release that included IBM supplied MQ Advanced 9.3.3.1-r1 container image and IBM MQ Operator v2.0.13 LTS release that included IBM supplied MQ Advanced 9.3.0.10-r1 container image.   IBM strongly recommends applying the latest container images.

IBM MQ Operator 2.4.2 CD release details:

Image

Fix Version

Registry

Image Location

ibm-mq-operator

v2.4.2

icr.io

icr.io/cpopen/ibm-mq-operator@sha256:cab79bd2a519c72617527571efecedd290a47db0fa54529c2d63b04ea9d5663f

ibm-mqadvanced-server

9.3.3.1-r1

cp.icr.io

cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server@sha256:39e716f3a6b4bec495b4c8c5af052257cc543a1e37ac179a2d62ce34756e268b

ibm-mqadvanced-server-integration

9.3.3.1-r1

cp.icr.io

cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server-integration@sha256:ae7eaf1be0e39fa45427dd4ee67b0c80f3d8d5dd80e7aa47292d573c3db45045

ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev

9.3.3.1-r1

icr.io

icr.io/ibm-messaging/ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev@sha256:1406e86db1c3099d0aba68e5716adc32d88290dd683f7aa333b6ff5a0dda0ba5

 

IBM MQ Operator V2.0.14 LTS release details:

Image

Fix Version

Registry

Image Location

ibm-mq-operator

2.0.14

icr.io

icr.io/cpopen/ibm-mq-operator@sha256:c4de80d19690ddd52f57675c793abc244d31b19f0dba3a197ae35fa0087b4a3d

ibm-mqadvanced-server

9.3.0.10-r1

cp.icr.io

cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server@sha256:ddcb868921b98b26e25d3c4b6b058b664ef0706d937420044db4cb7a558076fc

ibm-mqadvanced-server-integration

9.3.0.10-r1

cp.icr.io

cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server-integration@sha256:60e891ec6c7696720c8b85c50201ec5b74bf614e0c906bbc4f3dbb60678867d9

ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev

9.3.0.10-r1

icr.io

icr.io/ibm-messaging/ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev@sha256:457303c600c4ca088720a8e9da7017030bc8a65dcc6bac22ad9bf8140251361b

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

28 Aug 2023: Initial Publication

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
28 August 2023

UID

ibm17029356