Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Redis, MinIO, Golang, and Urllib3 affect IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Backup and Restore for Kubernetes and OpenShift

Summary

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container backup and restore for Kubernetes and OpenShift may be affected by vulnerabilities in Redis, MinIO, Golang, and Urllib3 such as bypass of security restrictions, denial of service, and man-in-the-middle attacks.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-21362
**DESCRIPTION:**MinIO could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions. By creating a temporary 'mc share upload' URL, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass a readOnly policy.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197902 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-2021-33503
**DESCRIPTION:**urllib3 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw due to catastrophic backtracking. By sending a specially-crafted URL 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/203109 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-2021-31525
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in net/http. By sending a specially-crafted header to ReadRequest or ReadResponse. Server, Transport, and Client, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a (panic) denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/202709 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-2020-14147
**DESCRIPTION:**Redis is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow in the getnum function in lua_struct.c in Redis. By sending a specially crafted command with a large number, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a stack-based buffer overflow, leading a denial of service…
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/183518 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-2021-28363
**DESCRIPTION:**urllib3 for python is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by improper certificate validation in some cases involving HTTPS to HTTPS proxies. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a man-in-the-middle attack and gain access to the communication channel between endpoints to obtain sensitive information or further compromise the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/198199 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2021-27919
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the Reader.Open API when use a ZIP archive containing files start with “…/”. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/198076 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

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Remediation/Fixes

Workarounds and Mitigations

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