Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation v2.4.4 fixes multiple security vulnerabilities

Summary

IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation v2.4.4 fixes multiple security vulnerabilities, listed in the CVEs below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-4883
**DESCRIPTION:**libXpm could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by compression commands depend on $PATH. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute program on the system with specific privileges.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/244934 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-44617
**DESCRIPTION:**libXpm is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by runaway loop on width of 0 and enormous height. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service to the calling program.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/244933 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-2022-46285
**DESCRIPTION:**libXpm is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop on unclosed comments. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service to the calling program.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/244932 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-2022-25881
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js http-cache-semantics module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw. By sending a specially-crafted regex input using request header values, 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/246089 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-2022-45143
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by not escape the type, message or description values in the JsonErrorReportValve function. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to supply values that invalidated or manipulated the JSON output.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/243565 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-40898
**DESCRIPTION:**Pypa Setuptools is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending request with a specially crafted regular expression, an 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/243027 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-2022-42898
**DESCRIPTION:**MIT krb5 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow in PAC parsing in the krb5_parse_pac() function. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a KDC or kadmind process to crash.
CVSS Base score: 6.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240238 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2867
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a uint32_t underflow that leads to an out-of-bounds read and write in the extractContigSamples8bits and extractContigSamplesShifted32bits routines when parsing files in tiffcrop.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233923 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2869
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a uint32_t underflow that leads to an out-of-bounds read and write in the extractContigSamples8bits routine when parsing files in tiffcrop.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233914 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2058
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a divide-by-zero error in tiffcrop. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TIFF file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/230252 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2057
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a divide-by-zero error in tiffcrop. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TIFF file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/230253 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2056
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a divide-by-zero error in tiffcrop. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TIFF file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/230254 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2953
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read in extractImageSection in tools/tiffcrop.c:6905. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235019 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2519
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a double free or corruption in rotateImage() at tiffcrop.c:8839. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235027 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-23969
**DESCRIPTION:**Django is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper validation of Accept-Language headers. By sending a specially-crafted header value, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause excessive memory usage, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/246168 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-2022-45693
**DESCRIPTION:**Jettison is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow. By sending a specially-crafted request using the map parameter, 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/242274 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-2022-40150
**DESCRIPTION:**jettison-json Jettison is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out of memory flaw. By sending a specially-crafted XML or JSON data, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to causes the parser to crash, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236353 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-45685
**DESCRIPTION:**Jettison is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow. By sending an overly long string using JSON data, 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/242596 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-2021-37533
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Commons Net could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an issue with the FTP client trusts the host from PASV response by default. By persuading a victim to connect to specially-crafted server, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain information about services running on the private network, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241253 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

As per CVEs listed above

IBM strongly suggests the following remediation / fixes:

IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation v2.4.4 can be deployed on-premises.

Please go to <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-network-auto/2.4.x&gt; to follow the installation instructions relevant to your chosen architecture.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None. Upgrade to the latest version.