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Security Bulletin: IBM Event Streams is affected by multiple Go vulnerabilities

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Event Streams is affected by the following vulnerabilities in the Golang Go runtime that is used in some of containers in the Event Streams deployment and for the Event Streams CLI

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-28362
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation by the math/big.Int methods. By sending a specially-crafted inputs, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/191976 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-2020-28367
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a argument injection flaw in go command when cgo is in use in build time. By using a specially-crafted package, 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/191979 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)

CVEID:   CVE-2020-28366
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a code injection flaw in go command when cgo is in use in build time. By using a specially-crafted package, 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/191978 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 Event Streams2019.2.1

IBM Event Streams

2019.4.1

IBM Event Streams

2019.4.2

IBM Event Streams

2019.4.3

IBM Event Streams in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

10.0.0

IBM Event Streams in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

10.1.0

 


Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 10.2.0 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

Upgrade from IBM Event Streams 2019.2.1 and 2019.4.x to the latest Fix Pack.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

18 Dec 2020: 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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Document Information

Modified date:
15 January 2021

Initial Publish date:
18 December 2020

UID

ibm16397840

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