SB2023071208 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak

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SB2023071208 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak

Published: July 12, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023071208
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) 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.


2) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2253)

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. A remote attacker can send specially crafted requests to the "/v2/_catalog" API endpoint and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References