Security Bulletin
Summary
A vulnerability in WebSphere Liberty affects IBM Robotic Process Automation and could lead to a denial of service (CVE-2025-25193). WebSphere Application Liberty is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of Antivirus and Abbyy containers as well as UMS. This bulletin identifies the fixes required to address this vulnerability.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2025-25193
DESCRIPTION: Netty, an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework, has a vulnerability in versions up to and including 4.1.118.Final. An unsafe reading of environment file could potentially cause a denial of service in Netty. When loaded on an Windows application, Netty attempts to load a file that does not exist. If an attacker creates such a large file, the Netty application crash. A similar issue was previously reported as CVE-2024-47535. This issue was fixed, but the fix was incomplete in that null-bytes were not counted against the input limit. Commit d1fbda62d3a47835d3fb35db8bd42ecc205a5386 contains an updated fix.
CWE: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Robotic Process Automation | 21.0.0 - 21.0.7.20, 23.0.0 - 23.0.20.1 |
| IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak | 21.0.0 - 21.0.7.20, 23.0.0 - 23.0.20.1 |
Remediation/Fixes
| Product(s) | Version(s) number and/or range | Remediation/Fix/Instructions |
| IBM Robotic Process Automation | 21.0.0 - 21.0.7.20 | Download 21.0.7.21 or higher and follow these instructions. |
| IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak | 21.0.0 - 21.0.7.20 | Update to 21.0.7.21 or higher using the following instructions. |
| IBM Robotic Process Automation | 23.0.0 - 23.0.20.1 | Download 23.0.20.2 or higher and follow these instructions. |
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IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak | 23.0.0 - 23.0.20.1 | Update to 23.0.20.2 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
12 Jun 2025: 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 Information
Modified date:
12 June 2025
Initial Publish date:
12 June 2025
UID
ibm17236518