Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in gRPC may affect IBM Robotic Process Automation and result in an attacker obtaining sensitive information. (CVE-2023-32731)

Summary

There is a vulnerability in gRPC used by IBM Robotic Process Automation as part of the Natural Language Processing, which may result in an attacker obtaining sensitive information (CVE-2023-32731). This bulletin identifies the security fixes to apply to address this vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-32731
**DESCRIPTION:**gRPC could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when gRPC HTTP2 stack raised a header size exceeded error. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257688 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.

IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak

| 23.0.0 - 23.0.9| Update to 23.0.10 or higher using the following instructions.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None