SB2024081528 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Storage Defender - Resiliency Service



SB2024081528 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Storage Defender - Resiliency Service

Published: August 15, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024081528
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 4
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-27351)

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions in django.utils.text.Truncator.words(). A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


2) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-34064)

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 within the "xmlattr" filter. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and 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.


3) Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-32879)

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

The vulnerability exists due to default case-insensitive collation in MySQL or MariaDB databases. A remote user can bypass authentication process and gain unauthorized access to the application.


4) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-24786)

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

The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop when parsing data in an invalid JSON format within the protojson.Unmarshal() function. A remote attacker can consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.