Bulletin ID	MET-2024-001
Date (published)	2024-04-02T00:00:00.000Z
Date (last updated)	2024-04-02T00:00:00.000Z
Severity	Informational

Description

On March 29th, 2024, malicious code was discovered in XZ Utils, a compression tool, versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1. The vulnerability could have been used to target SSH and allow a malicious actor to gain access to vulnerable Linux hosts.

Affected Products/Services

Metaplay infrastructure and product are not affected by this vulnerability.

• Metaplay by default leverages automatically updating AWS Linux images for underlying compute hosts. AWS Linux is not impacted, as per AWS's Security Bulletin AWS-2024-002.
• Dockerfiles that are part of Metaplay are based on mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet images (as of present tag 8.0), which do not contain the tool or libraries.

Impact

None.

CVE and CVSS Information

• CVE-2024-3094

References

• https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/
• https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2024-002/

Contact Information

Security-related questions or concerns can be sent to security@metaplay.io.

Revision History

Date	Description
2024-04-02	Security Bulletin released