SB2025052723 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Observability with Instana (OnPrem)
Published: May 27, 2025 Updated: July 18, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 32 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-44192)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in WebKit. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted webpage and crash the browser.
2) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22866)
The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a small number of bits of secret scalars are leaked on the ppc64le architecture in crypto/internal/nistec. A local user can gain access to potentially sensitive information.
3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22870)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to alter application's behavior.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of an IPv6 zone ID as a hostname component, when matching hosts against proxy patterns. For instance the NO_PROXY environment variable is set to "*.example.com", a request to
"[::1%25.example.com]:80` will incorrectly match and not be proxied. A remote attacker can alter application behavior and potentially gain access to sensitive information or functionality.
4) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45338)
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 in several Parse functions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
5) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-21145)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation within the 2D component in Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. A remote non-authenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read and manipulate data.
6) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-29481)
The vulnerability allows a local user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the bpf_object__init_prog` function of libbpf. The vulnerability allows a local user to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted ELF file that triggers a heap buffer overflow
7) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-54467)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a state management issue in WebKit. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted webpage and exfiltrate data cross-origin.
8) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-55549)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in xsltGetInheritedNsList. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
9) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45336)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to the HTTP client will send Authorization header to a third-party domain after a chain of redirects. A remote attacker can gain unauthorized access to credentials.
10) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22869)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the ssh package when handling clients that complete the key exchange slowly, or not at all. A remote user can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
11) Use after free (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-30427)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in WebKit. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted website and perform an unexpected Safari crash.
12) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-54551)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content in WebKit. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted web page, trigger memory corruption and crash the application.
13) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-27144)
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 parsing JWS and JWE input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
14) Uncontrolled memory allocation (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10237)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to unbounded memory allocation. A remote attacker can cause the service to crash and deserialize attacker-provided data, because the AtomicDoubleArray class (when serialized with Java serialization) and the CompoundOrdering class (when serialized with GWT serialization) perform eager allocation without appropriate checks on what a client has sent and whether the data size is reasonable.
15) Universal cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-24208)
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 when handling iframes. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser.
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.
16) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45341)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect handling of URI name constraint in certificate chains. A remote attacker can create a certificate with a URI, which has a IPv6 address with a zone ID, and bypass URI name checks.
The vulnerability affects users of private PKIs which make use of URIs.
17) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1834)
The vulnerability allows a local user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlStrncat function in libxml2. A local user can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted file to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted XML document.
18) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-32913)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the soup_message_headers_get_content_disposition() function. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
19) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-24216)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in WebKit. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted website and perform an unexpected Safari crash.
20) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22868)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the jws package does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling malformed tokens. A remote attacker can pass a malformed JWT token to the application, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
21) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5131)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when processing vectors related to the XPointer range-to function. A remote attackers can cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
22) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-24209)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in WebKit. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted website and perform an unexpected process crash.
23) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-30204)
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 parse.ParseUnverified function when parsing authorization header. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP response to the application, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
24) Improper authentication (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10963)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication process.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in pam_access module where certain rules in its configuration file are mistakenly treated as hostnames. A remote attacker can bypass authentication process and gain unauthorized access to the system.
25) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-0800)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to decrypt sensitive information.The vulnerability exists due to usage of weak SSLv2 protocol, which requires to send a ServerVerify message before establishing that a client possesses certain plaintext RSA data. A remote attacker can decrypt TLS ciphertext data by leveraging a Bleichenbacher RSA padding oracle.
The vulnerability is dubbed "DROWN" attack.
26) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1840)
The vulnerability allows a local user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the xmlFAParsePosCharGroup function in libxml2. A local user can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted XML document, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
27) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-32906)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in soup_headers_parse_request() function. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.
28) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1271)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation when processing filenames with two or more newlines. A remote attacker can force zgrep or xzgrep to write arbitrary files on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise the affected system.
29) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2108)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to cause memory corruption on the target system.The weakness exists due to buffer underflow with an out-of-bounds write in i2c_ASN1_INTEGER. As ASN.1 parser (specifically, d2i_ASN1_TYPE) can misinterpret a large universal tag as a negative zero value, attacker may easily corrupt memory.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability will allow a malicious user to trigger memory corruption on the vulnerable system.
30) Interpretation Conflict (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-32908)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to HTTP/2 server in libsoup may not fully validate the values of pseudo-headers :scheme, :authority, and :path. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
31) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-24855)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in numbers.c when handling nested XPath evaluations. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted XML input to the application, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
32) Type confusion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-24213)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a type confusion error. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger a type confusion error and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Remediation
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