SB2023051622 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Edge Application Manager
Published: May 16, 2023 Updated: July 5, 2024
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 5 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20699)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker on the local network to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker on the local network can cause a denial of service (dockerd memory consumption) via a large integer in a --cpuset-mems or --cpuset-cpus value, related to daemon/daemon_unix.go, pkg/parsers/parsers.go, and pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo.go.
2) Improper Preservation of Permissions (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-41089)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.
3) Improper Preservation of Permissions (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-41091)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.
4) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24769)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to containers are incorrectly started with non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.
5) Improper Privilege Management (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36109)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges.
The vulnerability exists due to improper privilege management caused by improper setup of supplementary groups. A local user can bypass primary group restrictions and compromise the container.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.