Security Bulletin
Summary
Multiple Security Vulnerabilities may affect IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak. Apache Commons is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of the Watson NLP functionality (CVE-2022-42889). Connect2id Nimbus JOSE+JWT is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of the Watson NLP functionality (CVE-2019-17195). FasterXML jackson-databind is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of the Watson NLP functionality (CVE-2020-36518, CVE-2022-42004, CVE-2018-7489, CVE-2020-10650, CVE-2020-35490, CVE-2020-35491, CVE-2022-42003). GnuPG Libksba is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of the UBI base containre image, Websphere Liberty and Watson NLP functionality (CVE-2022-3515). GnuTLS is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of the UBI base container image, Websphere Liberty and Watson NLP functionality (CVE-2022-2509). ISC BIND is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of the ClamAv and Watson NLP functionality (CVE-2021-25220). Netplex json-smart-v1 and json-smart-v2 is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of the Watson NLP functionality (CVE-2021-27568). SQlite is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of the UBI base container image, Websphere Liberty and Watson NLP functionality (CVE-2020-35525, CVE-2020-35527). libexpat is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of the UBI base container image, Abbyy, ClamAv and Watson NLP functionality (CVE-2022-40674). procps-ng is no longer used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak (removed in 21.0.7) (CVE-2018-1121). zlib is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of the UBI base container image, Websphere Liberty and ClamAv functionality (CVE-2022-37434). This bulletin identifies the security fixes to apply to address the vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2018-1121
DESCRIPTION: procps-ng procps is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a race condition. By sending a specially-crafted request, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to hide a process under /proc/PID/.
CVSS Base score: 3.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/143451 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2018-7489
DESCRIPTION: FasterXML jackson-databind could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a deserialization flaw in the readValue method of the ObjectMapper. By sending specially crafted JSON input, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/139549 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2019-17195
DESCRIPTION: Connect2id Nimbus JOSE+JWT is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the throwing of various uncaught exceptions while parsing a JWT. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash the application or obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/169514 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2020-10650
DESCRIPTION: FasterXML jackson-databind could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the unsafe deserialization of data when handling interactions related to the class ignite-jta. By sending specially-crafted input, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/234219 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2020-35490
DESCRIPTION: FasterXML jackson-databind could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe deserialization between gadgets and typing, related to org.apache.commons.dbcp2.datasources.PerUserPoolDataSource. By sending a specially-crafted input, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/193391 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2020-35491
DESCRIPTION: FasterXML jackson-databind could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe deserialization between gadgets and typing, related to org.apache.commons.dbcp2.datasources.SharedPoolDataSource. By sending specially-crafted input, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/193394 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2020-35525
DESCRIPTION: SQlite is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer derreference flaw in the INTERSEC query processing. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235225 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-2020-35527
DESCRIPTION: SQlite could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds memory access flaw through ALTER TABLE for views that have a nested FROM clause.. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service condition on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235226 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-2020-36518
DESCRIPTION: FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Java StackOverflow exception. By using a large depth of nested objects, 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/222319 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-2021-25220
DESCRIPTION: ISC BIND could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an error when using DNS forwarders. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the cache with incorrect records leading to queries being made to the wrong servers, which might also result in false information being returned to clients.
CVSS Base score: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/221991 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2021-27568
DESCRIPTION: Netplex json-smart-v1 and json-smart-v2 are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncaught exception flaw in NumberFormatException. By sending a specially-crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the library to crash or obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 9.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197316 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2022-2509
DESCRIPTION: GnuTLS is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a double free flaw during the verification of pkcs7 signatures in gnutls_pkcs7_verify function. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/232507 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-2022-3515
DESCRIPTION: GnuPG Libksba could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in the CRL parser. By sending a specially-crafted data, 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/239062 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-2022-37434
DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by inflate in inflate.c. By using a large gzip header extra field, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/232849 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2022-40674
DESCRIPTION: libexpat could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c. 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/236116 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-2022-42003
DESCRIPTION: FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a lack of a check in the primitive value deserializers when the UNWRAP_SINGLE_VALUE_ARRAYS feature is enabled. By sending a specially-crafted request using deep wrapper array nesting, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available resources.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237662 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2022-42004
DESCRIPTION: FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a lack of a check in in the BeanDeserializer._deserializeFromArray function. By sending a specially-crafted request using deeply nested arrays, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available resources.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237660 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2022-42889
DESCRIPTION: Apache Commons Text could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an insecure interpolation defaults flaw. By sending a specially-crafted input, 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/238560 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 Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak | < 21.0.7 |
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 Pak | < 21.0.7 | Update to 21.0.7 or higher using the following instructions. |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None.
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References
Change History
23 Dec 2022: Initial Publication
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Modified date:
06 January 2023
UID
ibm16853461