Security Bulletin: IBM Observability with Instana for Synthetic PoP is affected by Multiple Security Vulnerabilities

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities were addressed in IBM Observability with Instana for Synthetic PoP build 272

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-29041
**DESCRIPTION:**Express.js Express could allow a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks, caused by an open redirect vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted URL to redirect a victim to arbitrary Web sites.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/286404 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2024-22262
**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: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/287586 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2024-29025
**DESCRIPTION:**Netty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when using the HttpPostRequestDecoder to decode a form. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/286403 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 strongly recommends addressing these vulnerabilities now by updating IBM Observability with Instana for Synthetic PoP to the latest release as described here:

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=saas-build-272#synthetic-monitoring-1&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None