Security Bulletin: IBM Event Streams is affected by a vulnerability in Golang Go (CVE-2023-29406)

Summary

Vulnerabilities in golang before 1.19.11 affect the golang component that is used by IBM Event Streams (CVE-2023-29406). This vulnerability has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-29406
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper contents validation of Host header by the HTTP/1 client. By persuading a victim to visit a specially crafted Web page, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary HTTP headers, which will allow the attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/260573 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading

Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 11.2.2 by following the <https://ibm.github.io/event-automation/es/installing/upgrading/&gt; documentation.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None