Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Golang Go affect watsonx.data

Summary

Golang Go has multiple vulnerabilities that include HTTP request smuggling, remote attacks to obtain sensitive information, denial of service, and unspecified errors with return an incorrect results. These can affect watsonx.data.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-1705
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by a flaw with accepting of some invalid Transfer-Encoding headers in the HTTP/1 client in net/http. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP(S) transfer-encoding request header, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233258 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-32148
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by improper exposure of client IP addresses in net/http. By calling httputil.ReverseProxy.ServeHTTP with a Request.Header map containing a nil value for the X-Forwarded-For header, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain the client IP address information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233148 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-2022-1962
**DESCRIPTION:*Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack exhaustion flaw in all Parse functions. By sending a specially-crafted request, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/232543 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-24532
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified error with return an incorrect result in the ScalarMult and ScalarBaseMult methods of the P256 Curve in Golang Go has an unknown impact and attack vector.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/249655 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-41717
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when handling HTTP/2 requests in the Go server. By sending a specially-crafted keys, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause excessive memory growth, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241875 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

The product needs to be installed or upgraded to the latest available level watsonx.data 2.0.1 or watsonx.data on CPD 5.0.1. Installation/upgrade instructions can be found here: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/watsonxdata/2.0.x?topic=deployment-installing&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None