IT49379: IBM STORAGE INSIGHTS SECURITY APAR FOR CVE-2022-3517 ,CVE-2026-26996

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• CVEs: (details as of the time of ADV creation)
  CVEID: CVE-2022-3517
  Description: A vulnerability was found in the minimatch package.
  This flaw allows a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
  when calling the braceExpand function with specific arguments,
  resulting in a Denial of Service.
  CWE: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
  CVSS Base Score: 7.5
  CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
  
  CVEID: CVE-2026-26996
  Description: minimatch is a minimal matching utility for
  converting glob expressions into JavaScript RegExp objects.
  Versions 10.2.0 and below are vulnerable to Regular Expression
  Denial of Service (ReDoS) when a glob pattern contains many
  consecutive * wildcards followed by a literal character that
  doesn't appear in the test string. Each * compiles to a separate
  [^/]*? regex group, and when the match fails, V8's regex engine
  backtracks exponentially across all possible splits. The time
  complexity is O(4^N) where N is the number of * characters. With
  N=15, a single minimatch() call takes ~2 seconds. With N=34, it
  hangs effectively forever. Any application that passes
  user-controlled strings to minimatch() as the pattern argument
  is vulnerable to DoS. This issue has been fixed in version
  10.2.1.
  CWE: CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
  CVSS Source: security-advisories@github.com
  CVSS Base Score: 8.7
  CVSS Vector:
  (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  /E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MV
  A:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X)
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * IBM Storage Insights users                                   *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * SECURITY APAR FOR:                                           *
  * CVE-2022-3517, CVE-2026-26996                                *
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  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
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Problem conclusion

• The fix for this APAR is contained in the following release:
  
  IBM Storage Insights 2Q26   [ 54X-IBM-SI ]
  ( release target 2Q 2026 / June )
  
  To protect IBM Storage Insights against emerging
  security vulnerabilities, the service was updated to
  protected against vulnerabilities.
  
  No action is required, there is nothing that you need
  to do following the IBM Storage Insights upgrade.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  STORAGE INSIGHT

• Fixed component ID

  5608TPCSI

Applicable component levels