Security Bulletin: Mutiple Vulnerabilties Affecting IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator

Summary

IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator 1.2.x is vulnerable to several vulnerabilities coming from dependent compoents. These are addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-20863
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Spring Framework is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending a specially crafted SpEL expression, 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/252807 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-2023-32732
**DESCRIPTION:**gRPC is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a base64 encoding error for “-bin” suffixed headers. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a termination of connection between a HTTP2 proxy and a gRPC server, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257693 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-2023-20861
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Spring Framework is vulnerable to a denial of service. By sending a specially crafted SpEL expression, 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/250701 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-2023-2976
**DESCRIPTION:**Google Guava could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw with using Java’s default temporary directory for file creation in FileBackedOutputStream. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access the files in the default Java temporary directory, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258199 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-33201
**DESCRIPTION:**The Bouncy Castle Crypto Package For Java (bc-java) could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by not validating the X.500 name of any certificate in the implementation of the X509LDAPCertStoreSpi.java class. By using blind LDAP injection attack techniques, 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: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258653 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-1370
**DESCRIPTION:**netplex json-smart-v2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by not limiting the nesting of arrays or objects. By sending a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a stack exhaustion and crash the software.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/249885 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-2022-3509
**DESCRIPTION:**protobuf-java core and lite are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the parsing procedure for textformat data. By sending non-repeated embedded messages with repeated or unknown fields, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause long garbage collection pauses.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239915 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-33953
**DESCRIPTION:**gRPC is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by hpack table accounting errors. By sending a specially crafted request, 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/263382 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-2023-1428
**DESCRIPTION:**gRPC is vulnerable to a denial of service. By sending a specially crafted header, an 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/258439 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

To resolve these vulnerabilities, download interim fix dli-1.2.3-build601632-wmla from the following location: <https://www.ibm.com/eserver/support/fixes/&gt; and install it in the IBM® Watson Machine Learning Accelerator 1.2.3 cluster.

For IBM® Watson Machine Learning Accelerator version 1.2.0, 1.2.1 and 1.2.2, refer to the upgrade process <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/wmla/1.2.3?topic=upgrading-wml-accelerator&gt; to the latest version 1.2.3 first, then apply the interim fix dli-1.2.3-build601632-wmla.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None