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Security Bulletin: IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak is vulnerable to cross-protocol attacks due to sendmail (CVE-2021-3618)

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Summary

sendmail is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak as part of the antivirus container. (CVE-2021-3618)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-3618
DESCRIPTION:   Sendmail, vsftpd and NGINX could provide weaker than expected security, caused by an ALPACA (application layer protocol content confusion) attack, which exploits TLS servers implementing different protocols but using compatible certificates. By using man-in the-middle attack techniques, a remote attacker with access to victim's traffic at the TCP/IP layer could redirect traffic from one subdomain to another, resulting in a valid TLS session. The session breaks the authentication of TLS and the packages become vulnerable to cross-protocol attacks.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/207761 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak21.0.0 - 21.0.7.6, 23.0.0-23.0.7

 

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 Pak21.0.1 - 21.0.7.6Update to 21.0.7.7 or higher using the following instructions
IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak23.0.0 - 23.0.7Update to 23.0.8 or higher using the following instructions.

 

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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Acknowledgement

Change History

31 Jul 2023: Initial Publication

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
31 July 2023

UID

ibm17013521