## Summary

IBM Cloud Pak for Security includes components with known vulnerabilities. These have been updated in the latest release and vulnerabilities have been addressed. Please follow the instructions in the Remediation/Fixes section below to update to the latest version of Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S).

## Vulnerability Details

** CVEID: **[CVE-2021-23343]()
** DESCRIPTION: **path-parse is vulnerable to a denial of service. By sending a specially-crafted request via splitDeviceRe, splitTailRe, and splitPathRe regular expressions, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS).
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/201206]() for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

** CVEID: **[CVE-2022-25858]()
** DESCRIPTION: **Node.js terser module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw. By sending specially-crafted regex input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/231377]() for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

** CVEID: **[CVE-2023-20883]()
** DESCRIPTION: **VMware Tanzu Spring Boot is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when Spring MVC is used together with a reverse proxy cache. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255809]() 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-2023-2251]()
** DESCRIPTION: **YAML is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncaught exception in the parseDocument and parseAllDocuments functions. By sending a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253642]() 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-2017-18342]()
** DESCRIPTION: **PyYAML could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the failure to use yaml.safe_load in the yaml.load() API. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/145675]() for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

** CVEID: **[CVE-2019-20149]()
** DESCRIPTION: **kind-of could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper validation of user supplied input in ctorName in index.js. By sending a specially-crafted payload, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite the builtin attribute to manipulate the type detection result.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/173669]() for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

## Affected Products and Versions

**Affected Product(s)**| **Version(s)**
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Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S)| 1.10.0.0-1.10.12.0

## Remediation/Fixes

**IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly.**

Please upgrade to at least CP4S 1.10.13.0 following these instructions:

## Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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