Security Bulletin
Summary
Vulnerabilities in psutil, python and Golang Go may affect IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container backup and restore for Kubernetes and OpenShift.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2019-18874
DESCRIPTION: psutil is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a double free. By using specially-crafted data, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/171612 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2020-29652
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh component. 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/193622 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-2020-26116
DESCRIPTION: Python is vulnerable to CRLF injection, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input in http.client. By inserting CR and LF control characters in the first argument of HTTPConnection.request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/189404 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-2020-28362
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation by the math/big.Int methods. By sending a specially-crafted inputs, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/191976 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)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container backup and restore for Kubernetes | 10.1.5-10.1.7 |
| IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container backup and restore for OpenShift | 10.1.7 |
Remediation/Fixes
| IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Release | First Fixing VRM Level | Platform | Link to Fix |
| 10.1 | 10.1.7 ifix2 (10.1.7.2) | Linux | https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6330495 |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
9 February 2021: Initial Publication
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Location
Worldwide
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Document Information
Modified date:
09 February 2021
UID
ibm16410874