SB2024120228 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Security Directory Suite
Published: December 2, 2024
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 10 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Insufficient Session Expiration (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-32759)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient session expiration issue. A remote non-authenticated attacker can obtain or guess session token and gain unauthorized access to session that belongs to another user.
2) Brute-force attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9735)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a brute-force attack.The vulnerability exists due to a timing channel in util/security/Password.java, which allows a remote attacker to perform a brute-force attack by observing elapsed times before rejection of incorrect passwords.
3) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-27216)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition. On Unix like systems, the system's temporary directory is shared between all users on that system. A collocated user can observe the process of creating a temporary sub directory in the shared temporary directory and race to complete the creation of the temporary subdirectory. If the attacker wins the race then they will have read and write permission to the subdirectory used to unpack web applications, including their WEB-INF/lib jar files and JSP files. If any code is ever executed out of this temporary directory, this can lead to a local privilege escalation vulnerability.
4) HTTP request smuggling attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7656)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to conduct an HTTP request smuggling attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of HTTP/0.9 requests. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP/0.9 request that submits malicious request headers, cause the software and an upstream HTTP agent to misinterpret the boundary of the request and poison the web cache on the system, which could be used to conduct further attacks.
5) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-28169)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information..
The vulnerability exists due to a double decoding issue when parsing URI with certain characters. A remote attacker can send requests to the ConcatServlet and WelcomeFilter and view contents of protected resources within the WEB-INF directory.
Example:
/concat?/%2557EB-INF/web.xml
6) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-28165)
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 processing large TLS frames. A remote attacker can send specially crafted data to the server, trigger CPU high load and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
7) HTTP request smuggling attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7658)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to conduct an HTTP request smuggling attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper handling HTTP requests that contain more than one content-length header. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request that contains a transfer-encoding header and a content-length header, cause the software and an upstream HTTP agent to misinterpret the boundary of the request and to poison the web cache on the system, which could be used to conduct further attacks.
8) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7657)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of queries that do not match the dynamic URL pattern for webapps that use default error handling settings. A remote attacker can send a query that submits malicious input, trigger a java.nio.file.InvalidPathException message, which could allow the attacker to view sensitive information, such as the software installation path.
9) Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-41033)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack.
The vulnerability exists if using p2 repos that are HTTP; that can then be exploited to serve incorrect p2 metadata and entirely alter the local installation. A remote unauthenticated attacker can perform Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack.
10) Insufficient Session Expiration (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-34428)
The vulnerability allows an attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient session expiration issue. If an exception is thrown from the SessionListener#sessionDestroyed() method, then the session ID is not invalidated in the session ID manager. On deployments with clustered sessions and multiple contexts this can result in a session not being invalidated.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.