Security Bulletin
Summary
Golang Go is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak as part of the operator framework (CVE-2022-2879, CVE-2022-2880, CVE-2022-41715, CVE-2022-41716, CVE-2022-41724, CVE-2022-41725, CVE-2023-24534, CVE-2023-24536, CVE-2023-24537, CVE-2023-24538). Containerd is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of the operator framework (CVE-2023-25153, CVE-2023-25173). This bulletin describes the updates to address these vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2022-2879
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to set a limit on the maximum size of file headers by Reader.Read. By using a specially crafted archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available memory resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240560 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-2022-2880
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to conduct query parameter smuggling, caused by the inclusion of unparseable parameters rejected by net/http in requests forwarded by ReverseProxy. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct query parameter smuggling.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240561 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2022-41715
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the compilation of regular expressions from untrusted sources. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available memory resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240559 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-2022-41716
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper checking for invalid environment variable values in syscall.StartProcess and os/exec.Cmd. By using a specially-crafted environment variable value, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to set a value for a different environment variable.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240206 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2022-41724
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when processing large TLS handshake records. By sending specially-crafted TLS handshake records, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/248257 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2022-41725
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when perform multipart form parsing with mime/multipart.Reader.ReadForm. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume largely unlimited amounts of memory and disk files, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/248957 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2023-24534
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an memory exhaustion in the common function in HTTP and MIME header parsing. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/252276 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-24536
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw during multipart form parsing. By sending a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume large amounts of CPU and memory, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/252176 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-2023-24537
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop due to integer overflow when calling any of the Parse functions. By sending a specially crafted input, 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/252177 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-2023-24538
DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the failure to properly consider backticks (`) as Javascript string delimiters. By sending a specially crafted request, 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/252178 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-2023-25153
DESCRIPTION: containerd is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory exhaustion flaw when importing an OCI image. By using a specially-crafted image with a large file, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247777 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-2023-25173
DESCRIPTION: containerd could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper setup for supplementary groups inside a container. By sending a specially-crafted request using supplementary group access, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass primary group restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247778 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak | 21.0.1-21.0.7.5, 23.0.0 - 23.0.5 |
Remediation/Fixes
| Product(s) | Version(s) number and/or range | Remediation/Fix/Instructions |
| IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak | 21.0.1 - 21.0.7.5 | Update to 21.0.7.6 or higher using the following instructions. |
| IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak | 23.0.0 - 23.0.5 | Update to 23.0.6 or higher using the following instructions. |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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Acknowledgement
Change History
29 Jun 2023: Initial Publication
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Modified date:
29 June 2023
Initial Publish date:
29 June 2023
UID
ibm17008407