Security Bulletin: Automation Assets in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is vulnerable to remote code execution due to xmldom vulnerability [CVE-2022-37616]

Summary

Automation Assets in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is vulnerable to remote code execution due to xmldom vulnerability with details below. [CVE-2022-37616] This vulnerability has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-37616
**DESCRIPTION:**xmldom could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a prototype pollution in the dom.js script. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238439 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly suggests the following remediation / fix:

Automation Assets version 2020.4.1, 2021.1, 2021.2,** 2021.4, or 2022.2 in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration**

Upgrade Automation Assets Operator to 2022.2.1-4 using the Operator upgrade process described in the IBM Documentation

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-integration/2022.2?topic=capabilities-upgrading-automation-assets&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None