Security Bulletin: IBM Instana Observability is affected by multiple vulnerabilities within Instana Agent container image

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities were remediated in IBM Observability with Instana within Instana Agent container image build 282

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-24790
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified error related to various Is methods (IsPrivate, IsLoopback, etc) did not work as expected for IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses in the net/netip package in Golang Go has an unknown impact and attack vector.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/292953 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2024-34156
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode. 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/354342 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-2024-24786
**DESCRIPTION:**Protocol Buffers protobuf-go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop flaw in the rotojson.Unmarshal function when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON. 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/285337 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-2024-24789
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw with EOCDR comment length handling is inconsistent with other ZIP implementations in the archive/zip package. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to create an zip file with contents that vary depending on the implementation reading the file.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/292952 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2024-24791
**DESCRIPTION:**Go net/http package is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper 100-continue header handling. By sending “Expect: 100-continue” requests, 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/298554 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-2024-34155
**DESCRIPTION:*Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack exhaustion in all Parse functions. 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/354341 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-2024-34158
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack exhaustion in Parse. 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/354343 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing these vulnerabilities now by updating IBM Observability with Instana to the latest release as described here:

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None