Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities found in Turf.js which is shipped with IBM® Intelligent Operations Center [CVE-2020-28500, CVE-2020-8203, CVE-2019-1010266, CVE-2019-10744, CVE-2021-23337 and CVE-2018-16487]

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Turf.js which is shipped with IBM® Intelligent Operations Center. Information about these vulnerabilities affecting IBM® Intelligent Operations Center have been published and addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-28500
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js lodash module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) in the toNumber, trim and trimEnd functions. By sending a specially-crafted request, 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/196972 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-2020-8203
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js lodash module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a prototype pollution attack. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the merge, mergeWith, and defaultsDeep functions to inject properties onto Object.prototype to crash the server and possibly execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/183560 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-2019-1010266
**DESCRIPTION:**Lodash is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by uncontrolled resource consumption in Date handler. By sending an overly long string, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to stop responding.
CVSS Base score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/168402 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2019-10744
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js lodash module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a prototype pollution flaw. By sending a specially-crafted request using a constructor payload, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject properties onto Object.prototype to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 9.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/167415 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2021-23337
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js lodash module could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by a command injection flaw in the template. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196797 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2018-16487
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js lodash module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a prototype pollution flaw. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject properties onto Object.prototype to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/156530 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

The recommended solution is to apply an interim fix that contains the fix for this issue as soon as practical.

Download the IBM Intelligent Operations Center Version 5.2.4 is an upgrade to IBM Intelligent Operations Center Version 5.2.3 through IBM Intelligent Operations Center Version 5.2 from the following link:

IBM Intelligent Operations Center Version 5.2.4

Installation instructions for the fix are included in the readme document that is in the fix package.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None