Security Bulletin: IBM Automation Decision Services - April 2024 -Multiple CVEs addressed

Summary

IBM Automation Decision Services is vulnerable to denial of service attacks in third party and open source used in the product for various functions. See full list below. This vulnerability has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-31906
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Automation Decision Services allows web pages to be stored locally which can be read by another user on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/289860 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2024-22257
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Spring Security could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a broken access control when it directly uses the AuthenticatedVoter#vote passing a null Authentication parameter. By sending a direct request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 8.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285898 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2024-22259
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Spring Framework could allow a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks, caused by an open redirect vulnerability in UriComponentsBuilder. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted URL to redirect a victim to arbitrary Web sites.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285631 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2021-33813
**DESCRIPTION:**JDOM is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XXE issue in SAXBuilder. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/203804 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Automation Decision Services 23.0.2:

Interim fix 004 is available:

• ibm-ads-1.2.4 CASE Download link
• ADS 23.0.2 Public Git Repository

Workarounds and Mitigations

None