Fixes have been released by IBM to address numerous product vulnerabilities.
According to SecurityWeek, the most serious of the flaws are a pair of high-severity remote code execution bugs in its Data Visualization Manager and Security SOAR offerings.
The flaw tracked as CVE-2024-52899 would allow attackers to exploit the Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS flaw to facilitate malicious JDBC URL parameter injections and run arbitrary code.
Also a Security SOAR prototype pollution issue, tracked as CVE-2024-45801, could be leveraged to trigger arbitrary code execution and denial-of-service condition, according to IBM.
Other security vulnerabilities patched by IBM include the Watson Speech Services Cartridge for Cloud Pak for Data and OpenSSL flaws, tracked as CVE-2024-49353 and CVE-2024-6119, respectively, as well as three Engineering Lifecycle Management issues, which could be utilized in cross-site scripting intrusions.
Immediate application of the patches has been recommended even if no active exploitation of any of the flaws was reported.
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