SB2024013143 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Observability with Instana (OnPrem)
Published: January 31, 2024
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 5 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-43646)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when parsing malicious input. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion when there is an imbalance in parentheses, which results in excessive backtracking and subsequently increases the CPU load and processing time significantly, and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2454)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary code on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to improperly imposed security restrictions. A remote database user with CREATE privilege can bypass protective search_path changes via "CREATE SCHEMA ... schema_element" command and execute arbitrary code on the system.
3) SQL injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31197)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries in database.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within the java.sql.ResultRow.refreshRow() method when processing column names. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the affected application and execute arbitrary SQL commands within the application database using the statement terminator, e.g." ;".
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to read, delete, modify data in database and gain complete control over the affected application.
4) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-39533)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker 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 can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
5) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-20218)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to malicious pod/container can cause applications using the fabric8 kubernetes-client `copy` command to extract files outside the working path. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and read arbitrary files on the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.