Security Bulletin
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities in Watson NLP affect IBM Robotic Process Automation. Watson NLP is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Natural Language Understanding. This bulletin identifies the security fixes to apply to address the vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2023-4527
DESCRIPTION: glibc is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the getaddrinfo function. By sending a DNS response over TCP larger than 2048 bytes, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer, allowing an attacker to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service.
CWE: CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-4806
DESCRIPTION: GNU glibc is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free flaw in the getaddrinfo() function. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CWE: CWE-416: Use After Free
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-4813
DESCRIPTION: glibc is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free flaw in the gaih_inet function. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CWE: CWE-416: Use After Free
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-4911
DESCRIPTION: glibc could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a buffer overflow in the dynamic loader's processing of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. By sending overly long data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges on the system.
CWE: CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-27043
DESCRIPTION: Python could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a parsing flaw in the email.utils.parsaddr() and email.utils.getaddresses() functions. By sending a specially-crafted e-mail addresses with a special character, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to send messages from e-mail addresses that would otherwise be rejected.
CWE: CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2022-48560
DESCRIPTION: Python is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free flaw in the heappushpop() function in the heapq module. By sending a specially crafted request, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CWE: CWE-416: Use After Free
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2024-39705
DESCRIPTION: Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw when an untrusted packages have pickled Python code, and the integrated data package download functionality is used. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CWE: CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2024-5569
DESCRIPTION: zipp is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop flaw in the Path module. By using a specially crafted zip file, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CWE: CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak | 21.0.0 - 21.0.7.17, 23.0.0 - 23.0.17 |
| IBM Robotic Process Automation | 21.0.0 - 21.0.7.17, 23.0.0 - 23.0.17 |
Remediation/Fixes
| Product(s) | Version(s) number and/or range | Remediation/Fix/Instructions |
| IBM Robotic Process Automation | 21.0.0 - 21.0.7.17 | Download 21.0.7.18 or higher and follow these instructions. |
| IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak | 21.0.0 - 21.0.7.17 | Update to 21.0.7.18 or higher using the following instructions. |
| IBM Robotic Process Automation | 23.0.0 - 23.0.17 | Download 23.0.18 or higher and follow these instructions. |
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IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak | 23.0.0 - 23.0.17 | Update to 23.0.18 or higher using the following instructions. |
These vulnerabilities affect the IBM Robotic Process Automation server.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None.
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
16 Oct 2024: Initial Publication
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Document Information
Modified date:
16 October 2024
Initial Publish date:
16 October 2024
UID
ibm17173348