CVE-2021-29846: Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium Insights is affected by multiple vulnerabilities

Summary

IBM Security Guardium Insights has addressed the following vulnerabilities:

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2021-33198
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the SetString and UnmarshalText methods of math/big.Rat. By sending a specially-crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic or an unrecoverable fatal error, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/206604 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2021-29846
DESCRIPTION: IBM Security Guardium Insights could allow an authenticated user to obtain sensitive information due to insufficient session expiration
CVSS Base score: 2.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205256 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2021-34558
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to properly assert that the type of public key in an X.509 certificate matches the expected type in the crypto/tls package. By persuading a victim to connect to a specially-crafted TLS server, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a TLS client to panic.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205578 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2021-33197
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw in the ReverseProxy in net/http/httputil. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to drop arbitrary headers, including those set by the ReverseProxy.Director.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/206603 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2021-29845
DESCRIPTION: IBM Security Guardium Insights could allow an authenticated user to perform unauthorized actions due to improper input validation.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205255 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2021-33195
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by not following RFC 1035 rules in the LookupCNAME, LookupSRV, LookupMX, LookupNS, and LookupAddr functions in net. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/206601 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2021-29838
DESCRIPTION: IBM Security Guardium Insights could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to properly enable HTTP Strict Transport Security. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information using man in the middle techniques.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205026 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2021-33196
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the NewReader and OpenReader functions in archive/zip. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted archive file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic or an unrecoverable fatal error, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/206602 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2021-29923
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper consideration for extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address octet. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access control based on IP addresses.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/207025 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2021-3749
DESCRIPTION: axios is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the trim function. By sending a specially-crafted regex input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/208438 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2021-22918
DESCRIPTION: Node.js is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read in the libuv’s uv__idna_toascii() function. By invoking the function using dns module’s lookup() function, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/204784 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)

Version(s)

IBM Security Guardium Insights

3.0

Remediation/Fixes

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

References

Off

Acknowledgement

John Zuccato, Rodney Ryan, Chris Shepherd, Vince Dragnea, Troy Fisher, Nathan Roane, Elaheh Samani and Gabor Minyo, John Zuccato, Rodney Ryan, Chris Shepherd, Vince Dragnea, Troy Fisher, Nathan Roane, Elaheh Samani and Gabor Minyo, X-Force EHT: Chris

Change History

25 Jan 2022: Initial Publication

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Document Location

Worldwide

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