SB2024112732 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Observability with Instana
Published: November 27, 2024 Updated: January 21, 2026
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 8 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-43796)
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 in response.redirect() method. 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.
2) Cleartext storage of sensitive information (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-23444)
The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists within the new Certificate Signing Requests when elasticsearch-certutil CLI tool is used with the csr option in order to create a new request. The associated private key that is generated is stored on disk
unencrypted even if the --pass parameter is passed in the command
invocation. A local user with access to the system can obtain the key.
3) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-43800)
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. 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.
4) Prototype pollution (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-21529)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform prototype pollution, which can result in information disclosure or data manipulation.
5) Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45590)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of a large number of requests when url encoding is enabled. A remote attacker can send multiple requests to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
6) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-43799)
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 in the "SendStream.redirect()" function. 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.
7) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45296)
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. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
8) Prototype pollution (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45801)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform prototype pollution, which can result in XSS attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.