Security Bulletin: IBM Events Operator is affected by an openssl vulnerability

Summary

Openssl is used by IBM Events Operator as part of the Operating System (CVE-2022-4304). This is a library that provides secure communication.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-4304
**DESCRIPTION:**OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a timing-based side channel in the RSA Decryption implementation. By sending an overly large number of trial messages for decryption, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/246612 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading

Upgrade to IBM Events Operator 4.8.0.

This gets included into IBM Common Services and is included in 3.19.x, 3.23.x and 4.x channels. Follow the upgrading and migrating to upgrade to a newer version of IBM Common Services.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None