Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to Command Injection in the RHEL UBI (CVE-2023-50447)

Summary

RHEL UBI is used by IBM Storage Ceph as the base operating system. This bulletin identifies the steps to take to address the vulnerability in the RHEL UBI. CVE-2023-50447.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-50447
**DESCRIPTION:**Pillow could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper neutralization of user supplied-input by the PIL.ImageMath.eval function. By sending a specially crafted request using keys that leverage the environment parameter, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/280022 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.
Download the latest version of IBM Storage Ceph and upgrade to 6.1z5 or later by following instructions.

<https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ibmdl/export/pub/storage/ceph/&gt;
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-ceph/6?topic=upgrading&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None