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Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation 2.7.4 addresses multiple security vulnerabilities

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Summary

IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation 2.7.4 addresses multiple security vulnerabilities, listed in the CVEs below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2022-48554
DESCRIPTION:   File is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the file_copystr function in funcs.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service condition on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/264341 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-43785
DESCRIPTION:   X.Org libX11 could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an out-of-bounds memory access flaw in the _XkbReadKeySyms() function. By persuading a victim to connect to a specially crafted server, 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: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/267629 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-43786
DESCRIPTION:   X.Org libX11 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack exhaustion from infinite recursion in the PutSubImage() function. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted 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/267632 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-2023-43787
DESCRIPTION:   X.Org libX11 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the XCreateImage() function. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/267633 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-31573
DESCRIPTION:   XMLUnit for Java could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code when XMLUnit is used to transform data with a stylesheet from an untrusted source.
CVSS Base score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/289809 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-2023-28322
DESCRIPTION:   cURL libcurl could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw in the logic for a reused handle when it is (expected to be) changed from a PUT to a POST.. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause application to misbehave and either send off the wrong data or use memory after free or similar in the second transfer.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255626 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-2023-38546
DESCRIPTION:   cURL libcurl could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw in the curl_easy_duphandle function if a transfer has cookies enabled when the handle is duplicated. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to insert cookies at will into a running program.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268046 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-2023-46218
DESCRIPTION:   cURL libcurl could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a mixed case flaw when curl is built without PSL support. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to allow a HTTP server to set "super cookies" in curl.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/273320 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-2024-3177
DESCRIPTION:   Kubernetes kube-apiserver could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw when using containers, init containers, and ephemeral containers with the envFrom field populated. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin.
CVSS Base score: 2.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/287745 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-27043
DESCRIPTION:   Python could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a parsing flaw in the email.utils.parsaddr() and email.utils.getaddresses() functions. By sending a specially-crafted e-mail addresses with a special character, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to send messages from e-mail addresses that would otherwise be rejected.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253191 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)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-40896
DESCRIPTION:   Pygments is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a ReDoS issue in pygments/lexers/smithy.py. By sending a specially crafted request, 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/261415 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-2019-9740
DESCRIPTION:   Python is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input in the urllib2. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary HTTP headers, which will allow the attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/158138 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2020-26137
DESCRIPTION:   urllib3 is vulnerable to CRLF injection. By inserting CR and LF control characters in the first argument of putrequest(), 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: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/189426 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2020-7212
DESCRIPTION:   urllib3 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the _encode_invalid_chars function in util/url.py. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/177323 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-2021-33503
DESCRIPTION:   urllib3 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw due to catastrophic backtracking. By sending a specially-crafted URL request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/203109 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-2023-43788
DESCRIPTION:   X.Org libXpm could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an out-of-bounds memory read flaw in the XpmCreateXpmImageFromBuffer() function. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted content, 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: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/267634 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-43789
DESCRIPTION:   X.Org libXpm could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an out-of-bounds memory read flaw in the XPM. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted content, 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: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/267638 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-22025
DESCRIPTION:   Node.js is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a resource exhaustion flaw in fetch() brotli decoding . By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/284417 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-2024-25629
DESCRIPTION:   C-ares is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read in ares__read_line(). By sending a specially crafted request, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 4.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/283978 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-27982
DESCRIPTION:   Node.js is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by the use of content length obfuscation in the http server. By sending specially crafted HTTP request headers, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/286863 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-27983
DESCRIPTION:   Node.js is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an assertion failure in node::http2::Http2Session::~Http2Session(). By sending a small amount of HTTP/2 frames packets with a few HTTP/2 frames inside, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the HTTP/2 server to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/286865 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-2023-7008
DESCRIPTION:   systemd is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by a flaw with able to accept records of DNSSEC-signed domains even when they have no signature. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a man-in-the-middle attack and gain access to the communication channel between endpoints to manipulate records.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/280246 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-34447
DESCRIPTION:   The Bouncy Castle Crypto Package For Java could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw when endpoint identification is enabled in the BCJSSE and an SSL socket is created without an explicit hostname. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform DNS poisoning attack.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/289933 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)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-28849
DESCRIPTION:   Node.js follow-redirects module could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the leakage of credentials when clearing authorization header during cross-domain redirect, but keeping the proxy-authentication header. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain credentials and other sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285690 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-29390
DESCRIPTION:   libjpeg-turbo is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the decompress_smooth_data function in jdcoefct.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/264842 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-25193
DESCRIPTION:   Harfbuzz is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in hb-ot-layout-gsubgpos.hh. By using consecutive marks during the process of looking back for base glyphs when attaching marks, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger O(n^2) growth and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/246411 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-2023-5981
DESCRIPTION:   GNU GnuTLS could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a timing sidechannel issue during RSA-PSK key exchange. 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: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/271914 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)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-0553
DESCRIPTION:   GnuTLS could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information. By perform a timing side-channel attack in the RSA-PSK key exchange, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/279606 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)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-28834
DESCRIPTION:   GnuTLS could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the ECDSA code. By utilize Minerva attack techniques, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain private key information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/286142 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-2961
DESCRIPTION:   GNU C Library is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds write flaw in the iconv() function when converting strings to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash or overwrite a neighbouring variable.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/287843 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
CP4NA 2.7.3

Remediation/Fixes

As per CVEs listed above

IBM strongly suggests the following remediation / fixes:

IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation v2.7.4 can be deployed on-premises.

Please go to https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-network-auto/2.7.4  to follow the installation instructions relevant to your chosen architecture.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.  Upgrade to the latest version.

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

26 Jun 2024: 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:
14 April 2025

Initial Publish date:
26 June 2024

UID

ibm17158823