Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in the Golang language affect IBM Event Streams (CVE-2022-29526)

Summary

This security vulnerability affects Golang that is used by the IBM Event Streams CLI component

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-29526
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the Faccessat function when called with a non-zero flags parameter. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain accessible file information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229593 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

10.0.0, 10.1.0, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.3.1, 10.4.0, 10.5.0, 11.0.0

IBM Event Streams (Extended Update Support)

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10.2.0-eus, 10.2.1-eus (2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4,2.2.5)

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading

IBM Event Streams (Continuous Delivery)

• Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 11.0.1 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

IBM Event Streams (Extended Update Support)

• Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 10.2.1-eus (2.2.6) by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None