Security Bulletin
Summary
There are vulnerabilities in IBM® Websphere Application Server Liberty and Open-Source Software (OSS) components used by IBM Controller. Additionally, due to weak password requirements, IBM Controller is susceptible to compromised user accounts. Please refer to the table in the Related Information section for vulnerability impact. This Security Bulletin relates only to the direct usage of third-party components by IBM Controller and not any nested dependencies within the product.
Vulnerability Details
DESCRIPTION: Apache XML Graphics FOP is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. By sending specially crafted XML data, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CWE: CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2024-36137
DESCRIPTION: Node.js could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an error when the --allow-fs-write flag is used. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a "read-only" file descriptor to change the owner and permissions of a file.
CWE: CWE-284: Improper Access Control
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2024-22018
DESCRIPTION: Node.js could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an inadequate permission model that fails to restrict file stats through the fs.lstat API. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to retrieve stats from files that they do not have explicit read access to.
CWE: CWE-201: Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2024-36138
DESCRIPTION: Node.js could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by the incomplete fix of CVE-2024-27980 which was the improper handling of batch files in child_process.spawn / child_process.spawnSync. By sending a specially crafted command line argument, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject and execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CWE: CWE-77: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2024-37372
DESCRIPTION: The Permission Model assumes that any path starting with two backslashes \ has a four-character prefix that can be ignored, which is not always true. This subtle bug leads to vulnerable edge cases.
CWE: CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVSS Source: support@hackerone.com
CVSS Base score: 3.6
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2024-22020
DESCRIPTION: Node.js could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system. By embedding non-network imports in data URLs, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass network import restrictions and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CWE: CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2024-38809
DESCRIPTION: VMware Tanzu Spring Framework is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request containing ETags from "If-Match" or "If-None-Match" request headers, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CWE: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVSS Source: GitHub, Inc.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2024-22262
DESCRIPTION: Applications that use UriComponentsBuilder to parse an externally provided URL (e.g. through a query parameter) AND perform validation checks on the host of the parsed URL may be vulnerable to a open redirect https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/601.html attack or to a SSRF attack if the URL is used after passing validation checks. This is the same as CVE-2024-22259 https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-22259 and CVE-2024-22243 https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-22243 , but with different input.
CWE: CWE-601: URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2024-38808
DESCRIPTION: VMware Tanzu Spring Framework is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending a specially crafted Spring Expression Language (SpEL) expression, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CWE: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSS Source: VMware
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2024-52798
DESCRIPTION: path-to-regexp turns path strings into a regular expressions. In certain cases, path-to-regexp will output a regular expression that can be exploited to cause poor performance. The regular expression that is vulnerable to backtracking can be generated in the 0.1.x release of path-to-regexp. Upgrade to 0.1.12. This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-45296.
CWE: CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
CVSS Source: security-advisories@github.com
CVSS Base score: 7.7
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:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X)
CVEID: CVE-2024-7254
DESCRIPTION: Any project that parses untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of nested groups / series of SGROUP tags can corrupted by exceeding the stack limit i.e. StackOverflow. Parsing nested groups as unknown fields with DiscardUnknownFieldsParser or Java Protobuf Lite parser, or against Protobuf map fields, creates unbounded recursions that can be abused by an attacker.
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)
CVEID: CVE-2024-47554
DESCRIPTION: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Apache Commons IO. The org.apache.commons.io.input.XmlStreamReader class may excessively consume CPU resources when processing maliciously crafted input. This issue affects Apache Commons IO: from 2.0 before 2.14.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.14.0 or later, which fixes the issue.
CWE: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2024-41778
DESCRIPTION: IBM Controller does not require that users should have strong passwords by default, which makes it easier for attackers to compromise user accounts.
CWE: CWE-521: Weak Password Requirements
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Controller | 11.1.0 |
| IBM Controller | 11.0.0 - 11.0.1 |
Remediation/Fixes
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) | Fix |
| IBM Controller | 11.1.0 | Download IBM Controller 11.1.0 FP2 from Fix Central |
| IBM Cognos Controller | 11.0.0 - 11.0.1 | Download IBM Cognos Controller 11.0.1 FP4 from Fix Central |
IBM Controller 11.1.0.2 and IBM Cognos Controller 11.0.1.4 are available for Cloud deployments. To schedule an upgrade to this release for either your non-production or production environment, log a support case at https://www.ibm.com/mysupport.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
28 Feb 2025: 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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Modified date:
14 April 2025
UID
ibm17184423