Security Bulletin: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities may affect IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak.

Summary

Multiple Security Vulnerabilities may affect IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak. Freedesktop D-Bus is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of container base images (CVE-2022-42010, CVE-2022-42011, CVE-2022-42012). GNU Libtasn1 is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of container base images (CVE-2021-46848). Gnome libxml2 is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of container base images (CVE-2022-40303, CVE-2022-40304). Golang Go is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of the operator (CVE-2021-38561, CVE-2021-43565, CVE-2022-27664, CVE-2022-29526, CVE-2022-32149, CVE-2022-41717, CVE-2022-41723). LibTIFF is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of Watson NLP (CVE-2022-2056, CVE-2022-2057, CVE-2022-2058, CVE-2022-2519, CVE-2022-2520, CVE-2022-2521, CVE-2022-2867, CVE-2022-2868, CVE-2022-2869, CVE-2022-2953). Libksba is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of container base images (CVE-2022-47629). Pallets Werkzeug is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of Watson NLP (CVE-2023-23934, CVE-2023-25577). SQLite is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of container base images (CVE-2022-35737). libexpat is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of container base images (CVE-2022-43680). systemd is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of container base images (CVE-2022-3821). The vulnerabilities have been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-41723
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the HPACK decoder. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP/2 stream, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause excessive CPU consumption, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247965 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-2021-38561
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go Text is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an improper index calculation that allows an incorrectly formatted language tag to panic Parse. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an out-of-bounds read and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/219760 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-2022-32149
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation by the golang.org/x/text/language package. By sending a specially-crafted Accept-Language header, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause ParseAcceptLanguage to take significant time to parse, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238605 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-2022-27664
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in net/http. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a closing HTTP/2 server connection to hang, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235355 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-2021-46848
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU Libtasn1 could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an out-of-bound access flaw in ETYPE_OK. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 9.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240735 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2056
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a divide-by-zero error in tiffcrop. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TIFF file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/230254 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2057
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a divide-by-zero error in tiffcrop. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TIFF file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/230253 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2058
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a divide-by-zero error in tiffcrop. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TIFF file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/230252 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2519
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a double free or corruption in rotateImage() at tiffcrop.c:8839. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235027 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2520
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a sysmalloc assertion in rotateImage() in tiffcrop.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235026 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2521
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an invalid pointer free operation in TIFFClose() at tif_close.c:131. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235025 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2867
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a uint32_t underflow that leads to an out-of-bounds read and write in the extractContigSamples8bits and extractContigSamplesShifted32bits routines when parsing files in tiffcrop.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233923 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2868
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper validation of user supplied input that leads to an out-of-bounds read. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233922 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2869
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a uint32_t underflow that leads to an out-of-bounds read and write in the extractContigSamples8bits routine when parsing files in tiffcrop.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/233914 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2953
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read in extractImageSection in tools/tiffcrop.c:6905. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235019 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-3821
**DESCRIPTION:**systemd is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an off-by-one error in format_timespan() function of time-util.c. By sending specific values for time and accuracy, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241051 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-35737
**DESCRIPTION:**SQLite is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an array-bounds overflow. By sending C API with specially-crafted string argument, 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/232832 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-2022-40303
**DESCRIPTION:**Gnome libxml2 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in the XML_PARSE_HUGE function. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238602 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-40304
**DESCRIPTION:**Gnome ibxml2 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a dict corruption flaw. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238603 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-41717
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when handling HTTP/2 requests in the Go server. By sending a specially-crafted keys, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause excessive memory growth, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241875 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2022-42010
**DESCRIPTION:**Freedesktop D-Bus is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an assertion failure. By sending a specially-crafted message using invalid type signature with incorrectly nested parentheses and curly brackets, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a crash or incorrect message processing, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237924 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-2022-42011
**DESCRIPTION:**Freedesktop D-Bus is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an assertion failure. By sending a specially-crafted message using invalid array of fixed-length elements, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a crash or incorrect message processing, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237925 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-2022-42012
**DESCRIPTION:**Freedesktop D-Bus is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free and memory corruption flaw. By sending a specially-crafted message with out-of-band Unix file descriptors, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a crash or incorrect message processing, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237926 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-2022-43680
**DESCRIPTION:**libexpat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after free created by overeager destruction of a shared DTD in XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate in out-of-memory situations. 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/238951 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-2022-47629
**DESCRIPTION:**Libksba could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in the CRL signature parser. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/242850 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

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-2022-29526
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the Faccessat function when called with a non-zero flags parameter. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain accessible file information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229593 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-23934
**DESCRIPTION:**Pallets Werkzeug could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper input validation. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to set a cookie like =__Host-test=bad for another subdomain.
CVSS Base score: 2.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247553 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25577
**DESCRIPTION:**Pallets Werkzeug is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when parsing multipart form data with many fields. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247557 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.