Security Bulletin: Weaker than expected security vulnerability affect IBM Business Automation Workflow - CVE-2024-25026

Summary

IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile is shipped with Process Federation Server and User Management Services in IBM Business Automation Workflow traditional. IBM Business Automation Workflow containers build upon IBM WebSphere Liberty profile. Information about a security vulnerability affecting IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile was published: CVE-2024-25026.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-25026
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5, 9.0 and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 24.0.0.4 are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by sending a specially crafted request. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the server to consume memory resources. IBM X-Force ID: 281516.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/281516 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

V23.0.2 - V23.0.2-IF004
V23.0.1 all fixes
V22.0.2 all fixes
V22.0.1 all fixes
V21.0.3 - V21.0.3-IF032
V21.0.2 all fixes
V20.0.0.2 all fixes
V20.0.0.1 all fixes

| affected
IBM Business Automation Workflow traditional| V23.0.1 - V23.0.2
V22.0.1 - V22.0.2
V21.0.1 - V21.0.3.1
V20.0.0.1 - V20.0.0.2
V19.0.0.1 - V19.0.0.3| affected

For earlier and unsupported versions of the products, IBM recommends upgrading to a fixed, supported version of the product.

Remediation/Fixes

V23.0.1
V22.0.1 - V22.0.2
V21.0.1 - V21.0.3.0
V20.0.0.1 - V20.0.0.2
V19.0.0.1 - V19.0.0.3
V18.0.0.1 - V18.0.0.3

| Upgrade to a long term support release or the latest SSCD version. See IBM Business Automation Workflow and IBM Integration Designer Software Support Lifecycle Addendum

Workarounds and Mitigations

None