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Security Bulletin: IBM CICS TX Advanced is vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities in Golang Go.

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM CICS TX Advanced is vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities in Golang Go. The fix removes these vulnerabilities from IBM CICS TX Advanced.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-29652
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh component. By sending a specially-crafted request, 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/193622 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-2017-14623
DESCRIPTION:   ldap.v2 package (go-ldap) could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions under certain conditions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to login with an empty password.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/132379 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

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-2020-15113
DESCRIPTION:   etcd could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the lack of permission checks in the os.MkdirAll function when a given directory path exists already. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/186327 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2020-9283
DESCRIPTION:   Golang golang.org/x/crypto is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error during signature verification in the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh package. By persuading a victim to run a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/176688 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM CICS TX Advanced11.1

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerabilities by downloading and applying the interim fix from the table below.

         Product 

         Version 

         Defect 

         Remediation / First Fix 

IBM CICS TX Advanced  

11.1

127799

Download the fix from here

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

31 Oct 2022: 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.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
14 February 2023

UID

ibm16833250