Security Bulletin: IBM Cognos Analytics has addressed multiple vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2023-44981
DESCRIPTION:   Apache ZooKeeper could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw when SASL Quorum Peer authentication is enabled. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass authorization and allow arbitrary endpoints to join the cluster and begin propagating counterfeit changes.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268362 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-44487
DESCRIPTION:   Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in handling multiplexed streams in the HTTP/2 protocol. By sending numerous HTTP/2 requests and RST_STREAM frames over multiple streams, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service due to server resource consumption.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268044 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-2023-5072
DESCRIPTION:   JSON-java is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a bug in the parser. By sending a specially crafted request, 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/268485 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-2023-34462
DESCRIPTION:   Netty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw with allocating up to 16MB of heap for each channel during the TLS handshake the SniHandler class. By sending a specially crafted client hello packet, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a OutOfMemoryError and so result in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258713 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-25047
DESCRIPTION:   IBM Cognos Analytics is vulnerable to injection attacks in application logging by not sanitizing user provided data. This could lead to further attacks against the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/282956 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-23540
DESCRIPTION:   Auth0 jsonwebtoken could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an insecure default algorithm flaw in the jwt.verify() function. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass signature validation.
CVSS Base score: 6.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/242969 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-23541
DESCRIPTION:   Auth0 jsonwebtoken could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an insecure implementation of key retrieval function. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to forge Public/Private Tokens from RSA to HMAC.
CVSS Base score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/242966 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-23539
DESCRIPTION:   Auth0 jsonwebtoken could provide weaker than expected security, caused by an unrestricted key type issue. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to allow legacy keys usage and launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/242968 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-31484
DESCRIPTION:   CPAN.pm is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by improper validation of TLS certificates when downloading distributions over HTTPS. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a man-in-the-middle attack and gain access to the communication channel between endpoints to obtain sensitive information or further compromise the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253974 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2020-15366
DESCRIPTION:   Ajv (aka Another JSON Schema Validator) could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a prototype pollution flaw in the ajv.validate function. By sending a specially-crafted data, 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/185626 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-2021-28363
DESCRIPTION:   urllib3 for python is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by improper certificate validation in some cases involving HTTPS to HTTPS proxies. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a man-in-the-middle attack and gain access to the communication channel between endpoints to obtain sensitive information or further compromise the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/198199 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)