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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 1.0.297

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2025-22233
DESCRIPTION:   CVE-2024-38820 ensured Locale-independent, lowercase conversion for both the configured disallowedFields patterns and for request parameter names. However, there are still cases where it is possible to bypass the disallowedFields checks. Affected Spring Products and Versions Spring Framework: * 6.2.0 - 6.2.6 * 6.1.0 - 6.1.19 * 6.0.0 - 6.0.27 * 5.3.0 - 5.3.42 * Older, unsupported versions are also affected Mitigation Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version. Affected version(s)Fix Version Availability 6.2.x 6.2.7 OSS6.1.x 6.1.20 OSS6.0.x 6.0.28 Commercial https://enterprise.spring.io/ 5.3.x 5.3.43 Commercial https://enterprise.spring.io/ No further mitigation steps are necessary. Generally, we recommend using a dedicated model object with properties only for data binding, or using constructor binding since constructor arguments explicitly declare what to bind together with turning off setter binding through the declarativeBinding flag. See the Model Design section in the reference documentation. For setting binding, prefer the use of allowedFields (an explicit list) over disallowedFields. Credit This issue was responsibly reported by the TERASOLUNA Framework Development Team from NTT DATA Group Corporation.
CWE:   CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
CVSS Source:   security@vmware.com
CVSS Base score:   3.1
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-22866
DESCRIPTION:   Due to the usage of a variable time instruction in the assembly implementation of an internal function, a small number of bits of secret scalars are leaked on the ppc64le architecture. Due to the way this function is used, we do not believe this leakage is enough to allow recovery of the private key when P-256 is used in any well known protocols.
CVSS Source:   CISA ADP
CVSS Base score:   4
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Observability with Instana (Agent)Build 1.0.289 to 1.0.295

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/1.0.297

Affected Product(s)Version(s)Remediation/Fixes/Instructions
IBM Observability with Instana (Agent)Build 1.0.289 to 1.0.295Build 1.0.297

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

05 Jun 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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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
05 June 2025

Initial Publish date:
05 June 2025

UID

ibm17235741