Security Bulletin
Summary
CVE-2025-14847 has been reported for the Mongo DB images shipped with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation 24.0.x. An updated version of the image is available.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2025-14847
DESCRIPTION: Mismatched length fields in Zlib compressed protocol headers may allow a read of uninitialized heap memory by an unauthenticated client. This issue affects all MongoDB Server v7.0 prior to 7.0.28 versions, MongoDB Server v8.0 versions prior to 8.0.17, MongoDB Server v8.2 versions prior to 8.2.3, MongoDB Server v6.0 versions prior to 6.0.27, MongoDB Server v5.0 versions prior to 5.0.32, MongoDB Server v4.4 versions prior to 4.4.30, MongoDB Server v4.2 versions greater than or equal to 4.2.0, MongoDB Server v4.0 versions greater than or equal to 4.0.0, and MongoDB Server v3.6 versions greater than or equal to 3.6.0.
CWE: CWE-130: Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency
CVSS Source: cna@mongodb.com
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) | Status |
| IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation | V24.0.1 - V24.0.1-IF007 | Affected |
| IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation | V24.0.0 - V24.0.0-IF007 | Affected |
Remediation/Fixes
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) | Remediation / Fix |
| IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation | V24.0.1 - V24.0.1-IF007 | Until 24.0.1-IF008 is released, apply the configuration below |
| IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation | V24.0.0 - V24.0.0-IF00 | Apply security fix 24.0.0-IF008 |
Mongo DB is an optional component for IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation capabilities
- Automation Decision Services (ADS)
- Automation Document Processing (ADP)
Embedded Mongo DB is explicitly not recommended for production environments as documented in IBM Automation Document Processing parameters for parameter deploy_mongo. Updated Mongo DB images were made available in IBM Entitled Registry with 24.0.0-IF008:
- cp.icr.io/cp/cp4a/ads/mongo:7.0.28-amd64
- cp.icr.io/cp/cp4a/iadp/mongo_adp:7.0.28-amd64
The same images can be used by 24.0.1 customers by applying the following configuration change, if both conditions are met: Either the ADS or ADP capability is deployed and embedded Mongo DB was selected.
- Modify your your Customer Resource (CR) of kind "ICP4ACluster".
- To force the fixed version of Mongo DB for ADS, specify the 7.0.28 tag at
spec: ads_configuration: mongo: image: tag: 7.0.28 - To force the fixed version of Mongo DB for ADP, specify the 7.0.28 tag at
spec: ecm_configuration: document_processing: mongo: image: tag: 7.0.28 - Apply your CR changes
Note that this change pins image 7.0.28 for Mongo DB for these two components. The next fix on top of IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation 24.0.1 will use the new Mongo DB image tag by default. Future updates may specify other (later) tags of the Mongo DB image as their new defaults. To ensure such future default changes are picked up automatically, you must remove the above customerizaion upon applying the next 24.0.1-IF008.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
16 Mar 2026: Initial Publication
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Document Information
Modified date:
16 March 2026
Initial Publish date:
16 March 2026
UID
ibm17266183