Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation iFixes for January 2024.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2023-33008
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Johnzon is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an unsafe deserialization flaw in BigDecimal. By sending a specially crafted JSON input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a slow conversion, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/259976 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-2023-45857
DESCRIPTION:   Axios is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. By inserting the X-XSRF-TOKEN header using the secret XSRF-TOKEN cookie value in all requests to any server when the XSRF-TOKEN0 cookie is available, and the withCredentials setting is turned on, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform cross-site scripting attacks, Web cache poisoning, and other malicious activities.
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/270574 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-29159
DESCRIPTION:   Encode Starlette could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by improper validation of user request when using StaticFiles. An attacker could send a specially crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to view arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255807 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-26159
DESCRIPTION:   follow-redirects could allow a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks, caused by an open redirect vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted URL to redirect a victim to arbitrary Web sites.
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/278622 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-29491
DESCRIPTION:   ncurses is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory corruption flaw when used by a setuid application. By sending a specially crafted request, a local authenticated 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/253259 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-43642
DESCRIPTION:   snappy-java is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by missing upper bound check on chunk length. By sending a specially crafted request, 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/267079 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-2023-46673
DESCRIPTION:   Elastic Elasticsearch is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper handling of exceptional conditions. By sending a specially crafted request using the Simulate Pipeline API, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an Elasticsearch node to crash.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/272207 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-2023-50947
DESCRIPTION:   IBM Business Automation Workflow is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session.
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/275665 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-49083
DESCRIPTION:   Cryptography package for Python is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference when loading PKCS7 certificates. By deserializing a specially crafted PKCS7 blob/certificate, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/272510 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-2023-4759
DESCRIPTION:   Eclipse JGit could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper handling of case insensitive filesystems. By using a specially crafted symlink, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/265872 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-39417
DESCRIPTION:   PostgreSQL could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw in the extension script. By sending a specially crafted request using @extowner@, @extschema@, or @extschema:...@ inside a quoting construct, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code as the bootstrap superuser.
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/263270 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-5868
DESCRIPTION:   PostgreSQL could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when perform certain aggregate function calls. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain bytes of server memory from the end of the "unknown"-type value to the next zero byte, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/271219 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-5869
DESCRIPTION:   PostgreSQL is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the SQL array values. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/271226 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-5870
DESCRIPTION:   PostgreSQL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the pg_signal_backend role. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 2.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/271227 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-31582
DESCRIPTION:   Jose4J could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by allowing of a low iteration count of 1000 or less. By utilize cryptographic attack techniques, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain hashed password values, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/269733 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

IBM X-Force ID:   255807
DESCRIPTION:   Encode Starlette could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by improper validation of user request when using StaticFiles. An attacker could send a specially crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to view arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255807 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)