SB2022111607 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Application Performance Management

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 33 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Error Handling (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34472)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to influence browser behavior.

The vulnerability exists due to improper error handling when processing unavailable PAC file. If a PAC URL is set and the server that hosts the PAC is unreachable, OCSP requests are blocked, resulting in incorrect error pages being shown.

2) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1802)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to prototype pollution in Top-Level Await implementation. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website, corrupt the methods of an Array object in JavaScript via prototype pollution and execute arbitrary JavaScript code in a privileged context.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise the affected system.

3) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2505)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

4) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34484)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

5) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29909)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due improper management of permissions within the application. Documents in deeply-nested cross-origin browsing contexts can obtain permissions granted to the top-level origin. A remote attacker can create a web page that bypasses the existing browser prompt and wrongfully inherits the top-level permissions.

6) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38472)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of XSLT errors. A remote attacker can spoof the address bar and trick the user into submitting data intended for the spoofed origin.

7) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36319)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error, related to mouse pointer positioning when combining CSS properties for overflow and transform. A remote attacker can trick the victim into interacting with mouse cursor with different coordinates than displayed.

8) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31742)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when handling a large number of allowCredential entries. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website, launch a timing attack and detect the difference between invalid key handles and cross-origin key handles. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability can lead to cross-origin account linking in violation of WebAuthn goals.

9) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34468)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of the CSP sandbox header without "allow-scripts" option. A remote attacker use an iframe to bypass implemented CSP restriction and execute scripts if the user clicks on a javascript: link.

10) Use of Uninitialized Variable (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31741)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted webpage, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

11) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2200)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when handling JavaScript attributes. A remote attacker can pass undesired attributes to JavaScript object and perform prototype pollution and execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the browser.

12) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31737)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in WebGL when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it using the affected software, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

13) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36318)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when visiting directory listings for chrome:// URLs as source text. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

14) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29916)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to browsers behaves differently when loading CSS from known resources involving CSS variables. A remote attacker can monitor browser behavior to guess which websites were previously visited and are stored in browser history.

15) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31736)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when processing HTTP requests. A malicious website can obtain the size of a cross-origin resource that supported Range requests.

16) Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36314)

The vulnerability allows an attacker to initiate unintended actions.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when opening .lnk shortcuts on the system. If the shortcut contains a link to an external resource the browser can initiate network requests from the operating system.

The vulnerability affects Windows installations only.

17) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31740)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error related to register allocation problem in WASM on arm64. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted webpage, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

18) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1529)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input within the NotificationsDB module. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page, which passes malicious messages to the parent process where the contents is used to double-index into a JavaScript object. As a result, an attacker can perform prototype pollution and execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the privileged parent process.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise the affected system.

19) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34470)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in nsSHistory when handling XML documents. A remote attacker can trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

20) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29912)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to requests initiated through reader mode did not properly omit cookies with a SameSite attribute. A remote attacker can intercept cookies with SameSite attribute set.

21) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38473)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrectly imposed security restrictions on a cross-origin iframe referencing an XSLT document. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website and inherit the parent domain's permissions to access microphone or camera.

22) Insufficient UI warning of dangerous operations (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29914)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when reusing existing popups. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crated website and abuse the popups to cover the fullscreen notification UI, which can allow browser spoofing attack.

23) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38476)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a data race within the in the PK11_ChangePW function. A remote attacker can trigger a use-after-free error and crash the browser.

24) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38477)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

25) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29911)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to improper protection for the top-level navigation for an iframe sandbox with a policy relaxed through a keyword like allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation. A remote attacker can abuse this to bypass implemented sandboxing restrictions of loaded iframes.

26) Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34479)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of resizing event for a popup window. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website that can create a resized popup to overlay the address bar with its own content and perform spoofing attack.

Note, the vulnerability affects Linux installations only.

27) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29917)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

28) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31739)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when saving downloaded files on Windows. A remote attacker can use the "%" character in filename to store data outside the intended directory using Windows environment variables, such as %HOMEPATH% or %APPDATA%.

The vulnerability affects Windows installations only.

29) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34481)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in the nsTArray_Impl::ReplaceElementsAt() function. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website, trigger an integer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

30) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38478)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

31) Improper Authorization in Handler for Custom URL Scheme (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34478)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure usage of URI handlers that allow usage of ms-msdt, search, and search-ms protocols. A remote attacker can trick the victim to click on a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary code on the system, if the victim accepts the browser prompt.

The vulnerability affects Firefox on Windows.

32) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31738)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when exiting fullscreen mode. A remote attacker can use an iframe to confused the browser about the current state of fullscreen and perform spoofing attack.

33) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31747)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-multiple-vulnerabilities-of-mozilla-firefox-less-than-firefox-102-2esr-have-affected-synthetic-playback-agent-8-1-4-0-8-1-4-if16-2022-4-0/"
• https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-multiple-vulnerabilities-of-mozilla-firefox-less-than-firefox-102-2esr-have-affected-synthetic-playback-agent-8-1-4-0-8-1-4-if16-2022-4-0/</a><br>
• https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6839439<br><br></p>