Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Golang affect IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container backup and restore for Kubernetes and OpenShift (CVE-2021-3114, CVE-2021-3115)

Security Bulletin

Summary

Vulnerabilities in Golang Go may affect IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container backup and restore for Kubernetes and OpenShift.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2021-3114
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified error with the P224() Curve implementation can generate incorrect outputs in Golang Go has an unknown impact and attack vector.
CVSS Base score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/195677 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2021-3115
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a command injection flaw when using the go get command to fetch modules that make use of cgo. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/195678 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

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container backup and restore for Kubernetes	10.1.5-10.1.7
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container backup and restore for OpenShift	10.1.7

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Release	First Fixing VRM Level	Platform	Link to Fix
10.1	10.1.8	Linux	https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6415111

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

23 April 2021: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Golang affect IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container backup and restore for Kubernetes and OpenShift (CVE-2021-3114, CVE-2021-3115)