Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in Java affect IBM Business Automation Workflow - Oct 2023 CPU

Summary

IBM Business Automation Workflow containers package IBM® Java SDK 8 (V21.0.3) or IBM® Semeru Runtime 11 (V23.0.1), IBM® Semeru Runtime 17 (V23.0.2). Information about security vulnerabilities in these Java runtumes have been published.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-22081
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the JSSE component could allow a remote attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, no integrity impact, and low availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268929 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-22067
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the CORBA component could allow a remote attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268928 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-5676
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse OpenJ9 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when a shutdown signal (SIGTERM, SIGINT or SIGHUP) is received before the JVM has finished initializing. By sending a specially crafted request, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an infinite busy hang on a spinlock or a segmentation fault.
CVSS Base score: 4.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/271615 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

V23.0.2 - V23.0.2-IF001
V23.0.1 all fixes
V22.0.2 all fixes
V22.0.1 all fixes
V21.0.3 - V21.0.3-IF028
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
IBM Business Automation Workflow Enterprise Service Bus| V23.0.1 - V23.0.2
V22.0.2| affected

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

Remediation/Fixes

Workarounds and Mitigations

None