SB2022083021 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 39 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-28327)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in the Golang's library crypto/elliptic. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted scalar input longer than 32 bytes to cause P256().ScalarMult or P256().ScalarBaseMult to panic and perform a denial of service attack.

2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1271)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation when processing filenames with two or more newlines. A remote attacker can force zgrep or xzgrep to write arbitrary files on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise the affected system.

3) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23772)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the Rat.SetString(0 function in math/big. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

4) Incorrect authorization (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23773)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists within cmd/go, which can misinterpret branch names that falsely appear to be version tags. This can lead to  a situation where an attacker can bypass implemented security restrictions and perform restricted actions, e.g. create tags when access was granted to create branches only.

5) Unchecked Return Value (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23806)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to unchecked return value within the Curve.IsOnCurve() function in crypto/elliptic. A remote attacker can force the application to incorrectly return true in situations with a big.Int value that is not a valid field element. As a result, an attacker can modify application flow, which can lead to unauthorized data modification or denial of service.

6) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24675)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists in the Golang's library encoding/pem. A remote attacker can send to victim a large (more than 5 MB) PEM input to cause a stack overflow in Decode and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

7) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24921)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in regexp.Compile in Go. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.

8) Improper Authorization (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-26691)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in implementation of "Local" authorization mechanism. A remote attacker can authenticate as to CUPS as root/admin without the 32-byte secret key and execute arbitrary code on the system.

9) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-30184)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to excessive data output by the application in .NET and Visual Studio. A remote attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive information on the system.

10) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-41772)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in archive/zip Reader.Open. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted ZIP archive containing an invalid name or an empty filename field to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

11) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29824)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in several buffer handling functions in buf.c (xmlBuf*) and tree.c (xmlBuffer*). A remote attacker can pass specially crafted multi-gigabyte XML file to the application, trigger integer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

12) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25314)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in copyString. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger integer overflow and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.

13) Stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25313)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in build_model. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trigger stack-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

14) Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-40528)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm in the ElGamal implementation. A remote attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive information on the system.

15) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23648)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when handling specially crafted image configuration in containerd where containers launched through containerd’s CRI implementation. A remote attacker can bypass any policy-based enforcement on container setup and access the read-only copies of arbitrary files and directories on the host.

16) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31030)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the ExecSync API. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

17) UNIX symbolic link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-3627)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a symlink following issue, because Docker opens the file-descriptor passed to the pid-1 process before performing the chroot. A local user can create a specially crafted symbolic link to a critical file on the system and overwrite it with privileges of the application.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in privilege escalation.

18) Type Confusion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-41190)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a type confusion error. A remote authenticated attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger a type confusion error and interpret the resulting content differently.

19) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-44716)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

20) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-41771)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists in debug/macho of the Go standard library when using the debug/macho standard library (stdlib) and malformed binaries are parsed using Open or OpenFat. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted file to perform a denial of service attack.

21) Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-14039)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists when "VerifyOptions.Roots" is nil, "Certificate.Verify" does not check the EKU requirements specified in "VerifyOptions.KeyUsages".

22) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-27918)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop when using xml.NewTokenDecoder with a custom TokenReader. A remote attacker can trick a victim to open a specially crafted XML content and cause denial of service conditions.

23) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-15586)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in some net/http servers, as demonstrated by the httputil.ReverseProxy Handler. A remote attacker can exploit the race and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.

24) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-16845)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop in "ReadUvarint" and "ReadVarint" in "encoding/binary". A remote attacker can consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.

25) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-24553)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

26) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-28362)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in a number of math/big.Int methods (Div, Exp, DivMod, Quo, Rem, QuoRem, Mod, ModInverse, ModSqrt, Jacobi, and GCD). A remote attacker can pass large input data to the application, specifically as divisor or modulo argument larger than 3168 bits (on 32-bit architectures) or 6336 bits (on 64-bit architectures).

27) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-28366)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation at build time when cgo is in use. A remote attacker can trick the victim into building a specially crafted application and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

28) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-28367)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation at build time when cgo is in use. A remote attacker can trick the victim to build a specially crafted application and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

29) Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7919)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Go before 1.12.16 and 1.13.x before 1.13.7 (and the crypto/cryptobyte package before 0.0.0-20200124225646-8b5121be2f68 for Go) allows attacks on clients (resulting in a panic) via a malformed X.509 certificate.

30) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-29923)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in net.ParseIP and net.ParseCIDR, as the Go interpreter does not properly consider extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address octet. A remote attacker can bypass access control that is based on IP addresses, because of unexpected octal interpretation.

31) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-39293)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of archive/zip in Go programming language when processing archive header. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted file to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

32) Incorrect calculation (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3114)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect calculation performed by the application in "crypto/elliptic/p224.go". A remote attacker can generate incorrect outputs, related to an underflow of the lowest limb during the final complete reduction in the P-224 field.

33) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-31525)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a DoS attack.

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion when processing HTTP headers. A remote attacker can send a large header to ReadRequest or ReadResponse and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

34) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33195)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of data passed from DNS lookups. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted DNS reqponse and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

35) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33196)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when parsing archives. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted .zip file to the application, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

36) Missing Authorization (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33197)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authorization process.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in some configurations of ReverseProxy (from net/http/httputil). A remote attacker can drop arbitrary headers and bypass authorization process. 

37) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33198)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application when handling a large exponent to the math/big.Rat SetString or UnmarshalText method.  A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

38) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-36221)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in net/http/httputil ReverseProxy when handling ErrAbortHandler events. A remote attacker can trigger a race condition and crash the ReverseProxy.

39) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-38297)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption via large arguments in a function invocation from a WASM module, when GOARCH=wasm GOOS=js is used.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-multiple-security-vulnerabilities-may-affect-ibm-robotic-process-automation-for-cloud-pak-4/"
• https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-multiple-security-vulnerabilities-may-affect-ibm-robotic-process-automation-for-cloud-pak-4/</a></p><p>
• https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6615221</p><p><br></p>