Security Bulletin: Automation Assets in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is vulnerable to denial of service due to protobuf CVE-2022-1941

Summary

Automation Assets in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is vulnerable to denial of service due to protobuf CVE-2022-1941 with details below

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-1941
**DESCRIPTION:**protobuf is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a parsing vulnerability for the MessageSet type in the ProtocolBuffers. By sending a specially crafted message with multiple key-value per elements, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237081 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Automation Assets****in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

Upgrade Automation Assets Operator to 2022.2.1-5 using the Operator upgrade process described in the IBM Documentation

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-integration/2022.2?topic=capabilities-upgrading-automation-assets&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None