Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in SciPy may affect IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak and result in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-25399).

Summary

There is a vulnerability in SciPy used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak as part of Watson NLP, which may result in a denial of service(CVE-20230-25399). This bulletin identifies the security fixes to apply to address this vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-25399
**DESCRIPTION:**SciPy is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak flaw in the Py_FindObjects function due to new reference is not decreased. By sending a specially crafted request, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/260001 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

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.