SB20240827121 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Cloud Pak for Data

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SB20240827121 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Cloud Pak for Data

Published: August 27, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB20240827121
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
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 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-32208)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of message verification failures when performing FTP transfers secured by krb5. A remote attacker can perform MitM attack and manipulate data.


2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-32206)

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

The vulnerability exists due to insecure processing of compressed HTTP responses. A malicious server can send a specially crafted HTTP response to curl and perform a denial of service attack by forcing curl to spend enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying to and returning out of memory errors.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References