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Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities in Go may affect IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak

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Summary

Golang Go is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak as part of the operator (CVE-2023-29406, CVE-2023-29409). libp2p go-libp2p is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak as part of the operator (CVE-2023-39533).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2023-29406
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper contents validation of Host header by the HTTP/1 client. By persuading a victim to visit a specially crafted Web page, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary HTTP headers, which will allow the attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/260573 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-29409
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled resource consumption flaw. By persuading a victim to use a specially crafted certificate with large RSA keys, an remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a client/server to expend significant CPU time verifying signatures, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262400 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-39533
DESCRIPTION:   libp2p go-libp2p is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw during the signature verification. By sending a specially crafted request using large RSA keys, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust available resource, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/263110 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

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak21.0.0 - 21.0.7.10, 23.0.0 - 23.0.9

 

 

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.
 
Product(s)Version(s) number and/or range Remediation/Fix/Instructions
IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak21.0.0 - 21.0.7.10Update to 21.0.7.11 or higher using the following instructions

IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak

23.0.0 - 23.0.9Update to 23.0.10 or higher using the following instructions.

 

 

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.

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Acknowledgement

Change History

03 Nov 2023: Initial Publication

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
03 November 2023

UID

ibm17066400