Security Bulletin: IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container operands and operator may be vulnerable to HTML injection due to [CVE-2023-24540]

Summary

IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container operator and operands may be vulnerable to HTML injection. This bulletin provides patch information to address the reported vulnerability in Golang Go. [CVE-2023-24540]

Vulnerability Details

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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly suggests the following:
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container 4.1.x to 8.2.x (Continuous Delivery)

Upgrade to App Connect Enterprise Certified Container Operator version 9.0.0 or higher, and ensure that all components are at 12.0.8.0-r3 or higher. Documentation on the upgrade process is available at <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/app-connect/containers_cd?topic=releases-upgrading-operator&gt;

App Connect Enterprise Certified Container 5.0 LTS (Long Term Support)

Upgrade to App Connect Enterprise Certified Container Operator version 5.0.8 or higher, and ensure that all components are at 12.0.8.0-r3-lts or higher. Documentation on the upgrade process is available at <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/app-connect-contlts?topic=releases-upgrading-operator&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None