Security Bulletin: IBM CICS TX Standard is vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities in Golang Go.

Summary

IBM CICS TX Standard is vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities in Golang Go. The fix removes these vulnerabilities from IBM CICS TX Standard.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-29652
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh component. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/193622 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-2017-14623
**DESCRIPTION:**ldap.v2 package (go-ldap) could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions under certain conditions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to login with an empty password.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/132379 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-2021-43565
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an input validation flaw in golang.org/x/crypto’s readCipherPacket() function. By sending an empty plaintext packet to a program linked with golang.org/x/crypto/ssh, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/219761 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-2017-3204
**DESCRIPTION:**Go SSH library is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by improper validation of host keys. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a man-in-the-middle attack and gain access to the communication channel between endpoints to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/128718 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2020-15113
**DESCRIPTION:**etcd could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the lack of permission checks in the os.MkdirAll function when a given directory path exists already. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/186327 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-2020-9283
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang golang.org/x/crypto is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error during signature verification in the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh package. By persuading a victim to run a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/176688 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerabilities by downloading and applying the interim fix from the table below.

Product

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Version

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Defect

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Remediation / First Fix

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IBM CICS TX Standard

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11.1

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127799

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Download the fix from here

Workarounds and Mitigations

None