Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities affect IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak.

Summary

Guava is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak as part of Watson NLP (CVE-2020-8909, CVE-2023-2976). SQLite is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak as part of base container images, WebSphere Liberty and Watson NLP (CVE-2020-24736). Golang Go is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak as part of the operator and Watson NLP (CVE-2022-41725, CVE-2023-24534, CVE-2023-24536, CVE-2023-24537, CVE-2023-24538, CVE-2023-29400, CVE-2023-29402, CVE-2023-29403, CVE-2023-29404, CVE-2023-29405, CVE-2023-24539, CVE-2023-24540). libssh is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak as part of Watson NLP (CVE-2023-2283). libcap is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak as part of base container images, WebSphere Liberty and Watson NLP (CVE-2023-2602, CVE-2023-2603). cURL libcurl is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak as part of base container images, WebSphere Liberty and Watson NLP (CVE-2023-27536, CVE-2023-29469, CVE-2023-38039). GNOME libxml2 is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak as part of base container images, WebSphere Liberty and Watson NLP (CVE-2023-28484). D-Bus is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak as part of WebSphere Liberty and Watson NLP (CVE-2023-34969). Certifi is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak as part of Watson NLP (CVE-2023-37920). This bulletin identifies the steps to take to address the vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-8908
**DESCRIPTION:**Guava could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a temp directory creation vulnerability in com.google.common.io.Files.createTempDir(). By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/192996 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2020-24736
**DESCRIPTION:**SQLite is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a buffer overflow in window functions. By using a specially crafted script, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253878 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-41725
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when perform multipart form parsing with mime/multipart.Reader.ReadForm. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume largely unlimited amounts of memory and disk files, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/248957 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-2283
**DESCRIPTION:**libssh could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a memory allocation flaw in thepki_verify_data_signature function. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the authentication check of the connecting client.
CVSS Base score: 4.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257617 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-2602
**DESCRIPTION:**libcap is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak flaw in the error handling in the __wrap_pthread_create() function. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust the process memory, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 0
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255345 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-2603
**DESCRIPTION:**libcap could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in the _libcap_strdup() function. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255359 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-2976
**DESCRIPTION:**Google Guava could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw with using Java’s default temporary directory for file creation in FileBackedOutputStream. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access the files in the default Java temporary directory, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258199 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-24534
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an memory exhaustion in the common function in HTTP and MIME header parsing. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/252276 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-24536
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw during multipart form parsing. By sending a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume large amounts of CPU and memory, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/252176 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-2023-24537
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop due to integer overflow when calling any of the Parse functions. By sending a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/252177 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-2023-24538
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the failure to properly consider backticks (`) as Javascript string delimiters. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/252178 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-27536
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a GSS delegation too eager connection re-use flaw. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to reuse a previously created connection even when the GSS delegation.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/250531 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-28484
**DESCRIPTION:**GNOME libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the xmlSchemaFixupComplexType function. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted XML content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253138 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-29400
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code into the templates, which when parsed, would execute in the victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255427 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-2023-29402
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the generation of unexpected code at build time when using cgo. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257652 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-29403
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a flaw when a binary is run with the setuid/setgid bits. By sending a specially crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges. to read or write contents of the registers.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257653 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-29404
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw when running “go get” on a malicious module. By sending a specially crafted request using linker flags, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257654 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-29405
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw when running “go get” on a malicious module. By sending a specially crafted request using linker flags, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257655 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-29469
**DESCRIPTION:**GNOME libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a double free flaw in the xmlDictComputeFastKey function due to hashing empty strings are not null-terminated. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted XML content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253143 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-24539
**DESCRIPTION:**Go is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code into a template containing multiple actions separated by a ‘/’ character, which when viewed, would execute in the victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/256136 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-24540
**DESCRIPTION:**Go is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code into a template containing whitespace characters outside of the character set “\t\n\f\r\u0020\u2028\u2029”, which when viewed, would execute in the victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/256132 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-34969
**DESCRIPTION:**D-Bus is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when a monitor is active and a message from the driver cannot be delivered. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the dbus-daemon to crash, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257592 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-37920
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified error with the removal of e-Tugra root certificate in Certifi has an unknown impact and attack vector.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/261639 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-2023-38039
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by not limiting the number and size of headers accept in a response. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to run out of heap memory, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/265946 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.

IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak

| 23.0.0 - 23.0.11| Update to 23.0.12 or higher using the following instructions.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.