Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in Pypa Setuptools may affect IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak and result in a denial of service (CVE-2022-40897)

Summary

Pypa Setuptools is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak as part of Watson NLP. (CVE-2022-40897)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-40897
**DESCRIPTION:**Pypa Setuptools is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending request with a specially crafted regular expression, an remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/243028 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

Affected Product(s)|**Version(s)
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IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak 21.0| 21.0.0 - 21.0.7.2
IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak 23.0| 23.0.0 - 23.0.3

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.