Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in the mongo-tools utility affect IBM WebSphere Automation

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in the mongo-tools utility used in IBM WebSphere Automation. These have been addressed in the remediation section.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-41715
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the compilation of regular expressions from untrusted sources. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available memory resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240559 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-30580
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw when Cmd.Run, cmd.Start, cmd.Output, or cmd.CombinedOutput are executed when Cmd.Path is unset. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229858 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-1962
**DESCRIPTION:*Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack exhaustion flaw in all Parse functions. By sending a specially-crafted request, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/232543 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-30629
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an issue with session tickets generated by crypto/tls did not contain a randomly generated ticket_age_add. By comparing ticket ages during session resumption, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to observe TLS handshakes information to correlate successive connections.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229859 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2879
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to set a limit on the maximum size of file headers by Reader.Read. By using a specially crafted archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available memory resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240560 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-30630
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled recursion flaw in Glob in io/fs due to stack exhaustion. By sending a specially-crafted request using a path which contains a large number of path separators, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233143 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-32148
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by improper exposure of client IP addresses in net/http. By calling httputil.ReverseProxy.ServeHTTP with a Request.Header map containing a nil value for the X-Forwarded-For header, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain the client IP address information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233148 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-30635
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled recursion flaw in Decoder.Decode in encoding/gob due to stack exhaustion. By sending a specially-crafted message containing deeply nested structures, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233147 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-30633
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled recursion flaw in Unmarshal in encoding/xml due to stack exhaustion. By parsing a specially-crafted XML document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233146 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-27664
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in net/http. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a closing HTTP/2 server connection to hang, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235355 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-1705
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by a flaw with accepting of some invalid Transfer-Encoding headers in the HTTP/1 client in net/http. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP(S) transfer-encoding request header, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233258 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2880
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to conduct query parameter smuggling, caused by the inclusion of unparseable parameters rejected by net/http in requests forwarded by ReverseProxy. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct query parameter smuggling.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240561 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-28131
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled recursion flaw in Decoder.Skip in encoding/xml due to stack exhaustion. By parsing a specially-crafted XML document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233141 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-30631
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled recursion flaw in Reader.Read in compress/gzip due to stack exhaustion. By parsing a specially-crafted compressed file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233144 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-32189
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in Float.GobDecode and Rat GobDecode in math/big. By sending a specially-crafted message, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233149 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-30632
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled recursion flaw in Glob in path/filepath due to stack exhaustion. By sending a specially-crafted request using a path containing a large number of path separators, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233145 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

These vulnerabilities affect all versions of IBM WebSphere Automation up to and including 1.5.1.

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to 1.5.2 or higher.

Follow https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ws-automation?topic=installing-validating-installation to confirm the WebSphere Automation operator version.

Follow <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ws-automation?topic=installing-updating-websphere-automation&gt; to update the WebSphere Automation operator installation.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None