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Security Bulletin: IBM Instana Observability is affected by multiple vulnerabilities within Instana Agent container image

Security Bulletin


Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities were remediated in IBM Observability with Instana within Instana Agent container image build 279.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2024-24790
DESCRIPTION:   An unspecified error related to various Is methods (IsPrivate, IsLoopback, etc) did not work as expected for IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses in the net/netip package in Golang Go has an unknown impact and attack vector.
CVSS Source:   CISA ADP
CVSS Base score:   9.8
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-5321
DESCRIPTION:   Kubernetes kubelet could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by incorrect permissions on Windows containers logs. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read and modify container logs.
CWE:   CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   6.1
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2019-1002100
DESCRIPTION:   The Kubernetes API server is vulnerable to a denial of service. By sending a specially crafted patch of type "json-patch" requests, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume an excessive amount of resources.
CWE:   CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   6.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-47108
DESCRIPTION:   OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry-Go Contrib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an unbound cardinality metrics flaw in otelgrpc when the grpc Unary Server Interceptor out of the box adds labels `net.peer.sock.addr` and `net.peer.sock.port`. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available resources.
CWE:   CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
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-2024-32473
DESCRIPTION:   Moby could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw with IPv6 is enabled on IPv4-only network interfaces. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service condition.
CWE:   CWE-668: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   6.3
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-45288
DESCRIPTION:   An attacker may cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data by sending an excessive number of CONTINUATION frames. Maintaining HPACK state requires parsing and processing all HEADERS and CONTINUATION frames on a connection. When a request's headers exceed MaxHeaderBytes, no memory is allocated to store the excess headers, but they are still parsed. This permits an attacker to cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data, all associated with a request which is going to be rejected. These headers can include Huffman-encoded data which is significantly more expensive for the receiver to decode than for an attacker to send. The fix sets a limit on the amount of excess header frames we will process before closing a connection.
CWE:   CWE-202: Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Data Queries
CVSS Source:   CISA ADP
CVSS Base score:   7.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-24788
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a high cpu usage in extractExtendedRCode function in the net module. By sending a specially crafted DNS message in response to a query, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an infinite loop.
CWE:   CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
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:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2020-8554
DESCRIPTION:   Kubernetes could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw when using LoadBalancer or ExternalIPs. By using man-in-the-middle attack techniques, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to patch the status of a LoadBalancer service.
CWE:   CWE-283: Unverified Ownership
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   6.3
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2020-8561
DESCRIPTION:   Kubernetes could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a webhook redirect flaw in the kube-apiserver. By gaining access to the kube-apiserver log files, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to view the redirected responses and headers information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CWE:   CWE-441: Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy')
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   4.1
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-45289
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when following an HTTP redirect to a domain which is not a subdomain match or exact match of the initial domain. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive headers information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CWE:   CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   5.3
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-45290
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when parsing a multipart form in the net/textproto package. By sending a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to allocate arbitrarily large amounts of memory, and results in a denial of service condition.
CWE:   CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   5.3
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-24783
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the crypto/x509 package when verifying a certificate chain. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause Certificate.Verify to panic, and results in a denial of service condition.
CWE:   CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   5.9
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-24784
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the crypto/x509 package when verifying a certificate chain. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause Certificate.Verify to panic, and results in a denial of service condition.
CWE:   CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   5.4
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-24785
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw in the MarshalJSON methods in the html/template package. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject unexpected content into templates.
CWE:   CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   6.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-24789
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw with EOCDR comment length handling is inconsistent with other ZIP implementations in the archive/zip package. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to create an zip file with contents that vary depending on the implementation reading the file.
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   6.2
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-24791
DESCRIPTION:   Go net/http package is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper 100-continue header handling. By sending "Expect: 100-continue" requests, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CWE:   CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
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)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
IBM Observability with Instana (OnPrem) Build 262 to 278

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing these vulnerabilities now by updating IBM Observability with Instana to the latest release as described here: 

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current 

Affected Product(s) Version(s) Remediation/Fixes/Instructions
IBM Observability with Instana (OnPrem) Build 262 to 278 Build 279

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

29 Jan 2025: CVE details updated
13 Aug 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

UID

ibm17165367