Security Bulletin: Container Environment Vulnerabilities Affect IBM Secure Proxy (CVE-2020-14298, CVE-2020-14300)

Summary

There are multiple container environment vulnerabilities in IBM Secure Proxy. IBM Secure Proxy has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-14298
**DESCRIPTION:**runc could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw in the usage of system file descriptors. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a malicious or compromised container to compromise the container host and other containers running on the same host.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/185705 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2020-14300
**DESCRIPTION:**Docker package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an issue with allowing additional container processes via "runc exec" to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container in the runc component. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code outside of the container.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/185444 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Product |

VRMF

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iFix

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Remediation/First Fix

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IBM Secure Proxy

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6.0.2.0

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iFix 3_
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IBM Helm Charts

IBM Case Bundles

IBM Secure Proxy

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6.0.1.1

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6.0.2.0 iFix 3_
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IBM Helm Charts

IBM Case Bundles

Workarounds and Mitigations

None