Security Bulletin: Platform Navigator and Automation Assets in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration are vulnerable to code injection and privilege escalation due to multiple vulnerabilities in Go

Summary

Platform Navigator and Automation Assets in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration are vulnerable to code injection and privilege escalation due to multiple vulnerabilities in Go with details below. (CVE-2023-29400, CVE-2023-29402, CVE-2023-29404, CVE-2023-29403, CVE-2023-29405) The vulnerabilities have been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

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-2023-29404
**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-2023-29403
**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-2023-29405
**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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Platform Navigator in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

Upgrade Platform Navigator to either the LTS or CD version:

LTS: 2022.2.1-11 using the Operator upgrade process described in the IBM Documentation

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-integration/2022.2?topic=upgrading-platform-ui&gt;

CD: 2023.2.1-1 using the Operator upgrade process described in the IBM Documentation
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-integration/2023.2?topic=upgrading-platform-ui&gt;

Automation Assets version****in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

Upgrade Automation Assets Operator to 2022.2.1-10 using the Operator upgrade process described in the IBM Documentation

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-integration/2022.2?topic=capabilities-upgrading-automation-assets&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None