Security Bulletin: Operations Dashboard is vulnerable to Go vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-27918 and CVE-2021-27919)

Summary

Operations Dashboard is vulnerable to Go vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-27918 and CVE-2021-27919) with details of each below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-27918
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop flaw when using xml.NewTokenDecoder with a custom TokenReader. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted XML content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/198075 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2021-27919
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the Reader.Open API when use a ZIP archive containing files start with “…/”. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/198076 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

2020.4.1-0-eus
2020.4.1-1-eus
2021.1.1

Remediation/Fixes

Operations Dashboard version 2020.4.1 in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
Upgrade Operations Dashboard to 2020.4.1-2-eus using the Operator upgrade process described in the IBM Documentation
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-integration/2020.4?topic=components-upgrading-operations-dashboard&gt;

Operations Dashboard version 2021.1.1 in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
Upgrade Operations Dashboard to 2021.2.1 using the Operator upgrade process described in the IBM Documentation
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-integration/2021.2?topic=runtimes-upgrading-transaction-tracing-troubleshooting&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None