Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerability affect IBM Business Automation Workflow - CVE-2022-42003, CVE-2022-42004

Summary

Case (history) event emitters in IBM Business Automation Workflow are affected by multiple vulnerabilities in jackson-databind.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-42003
**DESCRIPTION:**FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a lack of a check in the primitive value deserializers when the UNWRAP_SINGLE_VALUE_ARRAYS feature is enabled. By sending a specially-crafted request using deep wrapper array nesting, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available resources.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237662 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-42004
**DESCRIPTION:**FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a lack of a check in in the BeanDeserializer._deserializeFromArray function. By sending a specially-crafted request using deeply nested arrays, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available resources.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237660 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

V22.0.2

| not affected
IBM Business Automation Workflow containers|

V22.0.1 - V22.0.1-IF004
V21.0.3 - V21.0.3-IF014
V21.0.2 all fixes
V20.0.0.2 all fixes
V20.0.0.1 all fixes

| affected
IBM Business Automation Workflow traditional| V22.0.2| not affected
IBM Business Automation Workflow traditional| V22.0.1
V21.0.1 - V21.0.3.1
V20.0.0.1 - V20.0.0.2
V19.0.0.1 - V19.0.0.3| affected

For earlier and unsupported versions of the products, IBM recommends upgrading to a fixed, supported version of the product.

Remediation/Fixes

The recommended solution is to apply the Interim Fix (iFix) or Cumulative Fix (CF) containing APAR DT169189 as soon as practical.

Apply 22.0.1-IF005
or Upgrade to Business Automation Workflow on Containers 22.0.2 or later

IBM Business Automation Workflow containers| V21.0.3| Apply 21.0.3-IF015
or Upgrade to Business Automation Workflow on Containers 22.0.2 or later
IBM Business Automation Workflow containers| V21.0.2
V20.0.0.1 - V20.0.0.2| Upgrade to 21.0.3-IF015
or Upgrade to Business Automation Workflow on Containers 22.0.2 or later
IBM Business Automation Workflow traditional| V22.0.1|

Upgrade to IBM Business Automation Workflow traditional V22.0.2 or later

IBM Business Automation Workflow traditional| V21.0.3.1 |

Apply DT169189
or upgrade to IBM Business Automation Workflow traditional V22.0.2 or later

IBM Business Automation Workflow traditional| V20.0.0.2| Apply DT169189
or upgrade to IBM Business Automation Workflow traditional V22.0.2 or later
IBM Business Automation Workflow traditional|

V21.0.2
V20.0.0.1
V19.0.0.1 - V19.0.0.3
earlier unsupported versions

| Upgrade to a long term support release or the latest SSCD version. See IBM Business Automation Workflow and IBM Integration Designer Software Support Lifecycle Addendum

Workarounds and Mitigations

None