Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Golang Go affect IBM Cloud Pak System

Summary

Vulnerabilities in Golang Go affect IBM Cloud Pak System. [CVE-2023-45284, CVE-2023-45283]

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-45284
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could provide weaker than expected security, caused by the failure to correctly detect reserved device names in some cases by the IsLocal function in the filepath package. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to report “COM1”, and reserved names “COM” and “LPT” followed by superscript 1, 2, or 3 as local.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/270989 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-2023-45283
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by the failure to recognize paths with a ??\ prefix as a Root Local Device path prefix in the filepath and safefilepath package. An attacker could send a specially crafted URL request containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to view arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/270990 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

Affected Product(s)|**Version(s) (Intel)
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IBM Cloud Pak System| 2.3.3.0
IBM Cloud Pak System| 2.3.3.3, 2.3.3.3 ifix1
IBM Cloud Pak System| 2.3.3.4
IBM Cloud Pak System| 2.3.3.5
IBM Cloud Pak System| 2.3.3.6, 2.3.3.6 ifix1, 2.3.3.6 ifix2

Remediation/Fixes

For unsupported versions the recommendation is to upgrade to supported version of the product.
This security bulletin applies to Cloud Pak System, Cloud Pak System Software, Cloud Pak System Software Suite.
IBM recommendation for customers is to apply the fix as reported below as soon as practical.

For Cloud Pak System
Upgrade to Cloud Pak System v2.3.4.0 for Intel at IBM Fix Central

Information on upgrading here <http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10887959&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None