IBM Security Updates 20 December 2022

IBM has released security updates to fix third-party components vulnerabilities across multiple products.

The addressed vulnerabilities could allow the remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, perform a Cross-Site Scripting attack, perform a Server-Side Request Forgery Attack (SSRF) attack, perform a Log Injection attack, execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service attack on the affected products.

Sample of the addressed vulnerabilities:

IBM Db2 Net Search Extender Code Execution (CVE-2022-40674)

• CVSS: 9.8

• Attack Vector: Network

• Attack Complexity: Low

• Privileges Required: None

• User Interaction: None

• Consequences: Gain Access

Affected Products

• IBM Spectrum Control 5.4

• IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.x and 11.2.x

• IBM Db2 V9.7, V10.1, V10.5, and V11.1 server editions on all platforms.

Vulnerabilities
  • CVE-2022-39353
  • CVE-2022-36364
  • CVE-2022-38708
  • CVE-2022-43887
  • CVE-2022-43883
  • CVE-2022-25647
  • CVE-2021-29469
  • CVE-2022-39160
  • CVE-2022-42004
  • CVE-2022-42003
  • CVE-2022-43680
  • CVE-2022-40674
Mitigations

The enterprise should deploy this patch as soon as the testing phase is completed.

• IBM Spectrum Control Security Bulletin

• IBM Cognos Analytics Security Bulletin

• IBM Db2 Security Bulletin

References