Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Data Scheduling is vulnerable to denial of service due to OpenTelemetry go module ( CVE-2023-45142, CVE-2023-47108 )

Summary

OpenTelemetry go module is used by IBM Cloud Pak for Data Scheduling as part of the scheduler binaries. CVE-2023-45142, CVE-2023-47108.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-45142
**DESCRIPTION:**OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry-Go Contrib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an unbound cardinality metrics flaw in otelhttp. By sending specially crafted HTTP requests, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a resource consumption, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268837 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-2023-47108
**DESCRIPTION:**OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry-Go Contrib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an unbound cardinality metrics flaw in otelgrpc when the grpc Unary Server Interceptor out of the box adds labels net.peer.sock.addr and net.peer.sock.port. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/272509 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

Affected Products/Versions guidance:

Affected Product(s)|**Version(s)
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IBM Cloud Pak for Data Scheduling| 4.6.4 - 4.8.2

Remediation/Fixes

Remediation/Fixes guidance:

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.

Note: IBM Cloud Pak for Data Scheduling is bundled with IBM Cloud Pak for Data to provide advanced scheduling

Workarounds and Mitigations

Workarounds/Mitigation guidance:

None