Security Bulletin: IBM Planning Analytics Workspace is affected by vulnerabilities in multiple Open Source Software (OSS) components

Summary

There are vulnerabilities in multiple Open Source Software (OSS) components consumed by IBM Planning Analytics Workspace. IBM Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0 Release 94 has addressed the applicable CVEs by upgrading or removing the vulnerable libraries. Please refer to the table in the Related Information section for vulnerability impact.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-44487
**DESCRIPTION:**Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in handling multiplexed streams in the HTTP/2 protocol. By sending numerous HTTP/2 requests and RST_STREAM frames over multiple streams, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service due to server resource consumption.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268044 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-2022-0235
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js node-fetch could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when fetching a remote url with Cookie. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217758 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-2020-15168
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js node-fetch module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to honor the size option after following a redirect. By using a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume excessive resource on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/188155 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-2017-16137
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when passing untrusted user input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/135678 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2017-20165
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js debug-js debug module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the function useColors of the file src/node.js. By manipulating the argument str, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a regular expression denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/244820 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-2017-20162
**DESCRIPTION:**Vercel ms is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the function parse of the file index.js. By sending a specially-crafted regex input, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/244072 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-46234
**DESCRIPTION:**browserify browserify-sign could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an upper bound check issue in the dsaVerify function. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform signature forgery attack.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/269796 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-32695
**DESCRIPTION:**Socket.IO socket.io-parser is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncaught exception flaw on the Socket.IO server. By sending a specially crafted Socket.IO packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the Node.js process to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/256442 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-2022-2421
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js socket.io module is vulnerable to SQL injection, caused by improper type validation in the socket.io-parser library. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements, which could allow the attacker to overwrite the _placeholder object which allows an attacker to place references to functions at arbitrary places in the resulting query object.
CVSS Base score: 10
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239554 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2015-9242
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js ecstatic module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation by the Last-Modified or If-Modified-Since headers. 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/151795 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-2016-10703
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js ecstatic module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression flaw. By passing a maliciously crafted string, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/136445 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-2019-10775
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js ecstatic is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of the URL params parsing during redirect. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/173790 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-2021-43138
**DESCRIPTION:**Async could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by prototype pollution in the mapValues() method. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/223605 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)

**IBM X-Force ID:**273485
**DESCRIPTION:**Enterprise Security API for Java is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the Validator.isValidSafeHTML method. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted URL to execute script in a victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim’s cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/273485 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)

**IBM X-Force ID:**270419
**DESCRIPTION:**Enterprise Security API for Java is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the HTTPUtilities.getFileUploads methods. 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/270419 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)

**IBM X-Force ID:**221059
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js ecstatic module 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: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/221059 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

It is strongly recommended that you apply the most recent security updates:

IBM Planning Analytics Workspace cloud environments have been remediated.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None