Security Bulletin: IBM Event Streams is vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to Golang Go (CVE-2022-41723)

Summary

IBM Event Streams is affected by golang / golang-xnet vulnerability for version < 0.7.0 ( CVE-2022-41723)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-41723
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the HPACK decoder. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP/2 stream, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause excessive CPU consumption, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247965 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

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading

Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 11.2.1 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None