IBMD4F5CA30A0684B1BF7007B9C5AAE12C57E985534CACC39B406930CA3B5169765Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in GNU Binutils may affect IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak and result in a denial of service (CVE-2019-9074).
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
5.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.3 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
44.7%
Summary
GNU Binutils is used by IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak as part of Watson NLP. (CVE-2019-9074).
Vulnerability Details
CVEID:CVE-2019-9074
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU Binutils is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read leading to a SEGV in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd). By using a specially-crafted file, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/157927 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
|---|---|
| IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak | 21.0.0 - 21.0.7.1, 23.0.0 - 23.0.2 |
Remediation/Fixes
IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.
| Product(s) | **Version(s) number and/or range ** | Remediation/Fix/Instructions |
|---|---|---|
| IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak | 21.0.0 - 21.0.7.1 | Update to 21.0.7.2 or higher using the following instructions. |
IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak
| 23.0.0 - 23.0.2| Update to 23.0.3 or higher using the following instructions.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None.
Affected configurations
Related
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
5.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.3 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
44.7%