SB2024101533 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Observability with Instana

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SB2024101533 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Observability with Instana

Published: October 15, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024101533
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Information Exposure Through an Error Message (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-23689)

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to client certificate passwords.

The vulnerability occurs when 'sslkey' is specified and an exception, such as a ClickHouseException or SQLException, is thrown during database operations; the certificate password is then included in the logged exception message. A local user can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted file and gain access to client certificate passwords via client exception logs


2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3651)

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 within the idna.encode() function. A remote attacker can pass an overly long domain name to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References