Security Bulletin: IBM Automation Decision Services for May 2024 - Multiple CVEs addressed

Summary

“IBM Automation Decision Services is vulnerable to multiple remote code execution and denial of service attacks in third party and open source used in the product for various functions. See full list below. The vulnerabilities have been addressed.”

Vulnerability Details

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-2023-45288
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory exhaustion flaw due to flood of CONTINUATION frames in the HTTP/2 protocol stack in the net/http and x/net/http2 packages. 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/286962 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-2023-3635
**DESCRIPTION:**Okio GzipSource is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by unhandled exception. By sending a specially crafted gzip buffer, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/260866 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-2024-23081
**DESCRIPTION:**ThreeTen Backport is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NullPointerException flaw in the org.threeten.bp.LocalDate::compareTo(ChronoLocalDate) component. 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/287386 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-2024-23082
**DESCRIPTION:**ThreeTen Backport is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow in the org.threeten.bp.format.DateTimeFormatter::parse(CharSequence, ParsePosition) component. 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/287387 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-2021-3572
**DESCRIPTION:**pip package for python could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the improper handling of Unicode separators in git references. By creating a specially crafted tag, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to install a different revision on a repository.
CVSS Base score: 4.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/208954 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

This Known Issue addresses the security vulnerabilities that have been fixed within IBM Automation Decision Services.

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Automation Decision Services 23.0.2:

Interim fix 005 is available:

• ibm-ads-1.2.5 CASE Download link
• ADS 23.0.2 Public Git Repository

Workarounds and Mitigations

None