SB2024010310 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak System
Published: January 3, 2024
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3749)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the isURLSearchParams function in utils.js. A remote attacker can send specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
2) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-28168)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker is able to bypass a proxy by providing a URL that responds with a redirect to a restricted host or IP address and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.