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Security Bulletin: Automation Assets in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is vulnerable to runc CVE-2025-52881

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Summary

Automation Assets in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is vulnerable to runc CVE-2025-52881. The vulnerability have been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2025-52881
DESCRIPTION:   runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In versions 1.2.7, 1.3.2 and 1.4.0-rc.2, an attacker can trick runc into misdirecting writes to /proc to other procfs files through the use of a racing container with shared mounts (we have also verified this attack is possible to exploit using a standard Dockerfile with docker buildx build as that also permits triggering parallel execution of containers with custom shared mounts configured). This redirect could be through symbolic links in a tmpfs or theoretically other methods such as regular bind-mounts. While similar, the mitigation applied for the related CVE, CVE-2019-19921, was fairly limited and effectively only caused runc to verify that when LSM labels are written they are actually procfs files. This issue is fixed in versions 1.2.8, 1.3.3, and 1.4.0-rc.3.
CWE:   CWE-61: UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
CVSS Source:   NVD
CVSS Base score:   7.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)

Automation Assets in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I)

4.0.0-sc2 to 4.0.16-sc2
4.1.0
4.2.0
4.3.0

Remediation/Fixes

Automation Assets in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

Upgrade Automation Assets Operator to either the SC2 or Mod version:

SC2: 4.0.17-sc2 using the Operator upgrade process described in the IBM Documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-integration/16.1.0?topic=upgrading

Mod: 4.3.1 using the Operator upgrade process described in the IBM Documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-integration/16.1.3?topic=upgrading

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

13 Mar 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

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
13 March 2026

Initial Publish date:
13 March 2026

UID

ibm17263568