Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container (ACEcc) is built on the Red Hat Universal Base Images. ACEcc operator versions 12.0.19 (LTS) and 12.19.0 address the listed CVEs found in the base images. This bulletin provides patch information to address the reported vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2022-23990
DESCRIPTION: Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has an integer overflow in the doProlog function.
CWE: CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
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-2025-9230
DESCRIPTION: Issue summary: An application trying to decrypt CMS messages encrypted using
password based encryption can trigger an out-of-bounds read and write.
Impact summary: This out-of-bounds read may trigger a crash which leads to
Denial of Service for an application. The out-of-bounds write can cause
a memory corruption which can have various consequences including
a Denial of Service or Execution of attacker-supplied code.
Although the consequences of a successful exploit of this vulnerability
could be severe, the probability that the attacker would be able to
perform it is low. Besides, password based (PWRI) encryption support in CMS
messages is very rarely used. For that reason the issue was assessed as
Moderate severity according to our Security Policy.
The FIPS modules in 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this
issue, as the CMS implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module
boundary.
CWE: CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read
CVSS Source: CISA ADP
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2025-9714
DESCRIPTION: Uncontrolled recursion in XPath evaluation in libxml2 up to and including version 2.9.14 allows a local attacker to cause a stack overflow via crafted expressions. XPath processing functions `xmlXPathRunEval`, `xmlXPathCtxtCompile`, and `xmlXPathEvalExpr` were resetting recursion depth to zero before making potentially recursive calls. When such functions were called recursively this could allow for uncontrolled recursion and lead to a stack overflow. These functions now preserve recursion depth across recursive calls, allowing recursion depth to be controlled.
CWE: CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion
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)
CVEID: CVE-2025-59375
DESCRIPTION: libexpat in Expat before 2.7.2 allows attackers to trigger large dynamic memory allocations via a small document that is submitted for parsing.
CWE: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSS Source: cve@mitre.org
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM App Connect Operator |
CD: 11.1.0 - 11.6.0, 12.1.0 - 12.18.0 12.0 LTS: 12.0.0 - 12.0.18 |
| IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Containers Operands |
CD: 12.0.10.0-r3 - 12.0.12.5-r1, 13.0.1.0-r1 - 13.0.5.2-r1 12.0 LTS: 12.0.12-r1 - 12.0.12-r18 |
Remediation/Fixes
IBM strongly suggests the following:
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container up to 12.18.0 (Continuous Delivery)
Upgrade to App Connect Enterprise Certified Container Operator version 12.19.0 or higher, and ensure that all components are at 13.0.6.0-r1 or higher. Documentation on the upgrade process is available at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/app-connect/13.0?topic=releases-upgrading-operator
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container 12.0 LTS (Long Term Support)
Upgrade to App Connect Enterprise Certified Container Operator version 12.0.19 or higher, and ensure that all components are at 12.0.12-r19 or higher. Documentation on the upgrade process is available at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/app-connect/12.0?topic=umfpr-upgrading-operator-releases
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
29 Dec 2026: 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
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Document Information
Modified date:
29 December 2025
UID
ibm17255930