Several vulnerabilities were identified with versions of Systemd which is included in IBM MQ Cloud Paks.
CVEID: CVE-2018-15686 DESCRIPTION: systemd could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a flaw in the unit_deserialize function. By sending a specially-crafted request using NotifyAccess, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/152039> for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2018-15687 DESCRIPTION: systemd could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a race condition in the chown_one function. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to set arbitrary permissions on arbitrary files.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/152040> for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2018-15688 DESCRIPTION: systemd is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the dhcp6 client. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/152041> for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
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v1.0.0 - v2.1.1
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