Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Business Automation Workflow Machine Learning Server are addressed with 23.0.2-IF001

Summary

In addition to updates to operating system level packages, IBM Business Automation Workflow Machine Learning Server 23.0.2-IF001 addresses the following vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-43804
**DESCRIPTION:**urllib3 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw with cookie request header not stripped during cross-origin redirects. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268192 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25399
**DESCRIPTION:**SciPy is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak flaw in the Py_FindObjects function due to new reference is not decreased. By sending a specially crafted request, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/260001 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-29824
**DESCRIPTION:**SciPy is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an use-after-free bug in function Py_FindObjects. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/260015 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-2023-29159
**DESCRIPTION:**Encode Starlette could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by improper validation of user request when using StaticFiles. An attacker could send a specially crafted URL request containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to view arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255807 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-27043
**DESCRIPTION:**Python could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a parsing flaw in the email.utils.parsaddr() and email.utils.getaddresses() functions. By sending a specially-crafted e-mail addresses with a special character, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to send messages from e-mail addresses that would otherwise be rejected.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253191 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-2023-44271
**DESCRIPTION:**Pillow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw with uncontrollably allocates memory to process a given task. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause service to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/270517 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)

**IBM X-Force ID:**255807
**DESCRIPTION:**Encode Starlette could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by improper validation of user request when using StaticFiles. An attacker could send a specially crafted URL request containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to view arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255807 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

V23.0.2

| affected
IBM Business Automation Workflow traditional| V23.0.2| affected

Remediation/Fixes

Workarounds and Mitigations

None