SB2025031747 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Business Automation Workflow
Published: March 17, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 5 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-23083)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to improperly imposed security restrictions when handling diagnostics data with diagnostics_channel utility. A remote user can hook the utility to internal workers and gain access to sensitive information.
2) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-23084)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to input validation error in path.join API when processing drive names in the Windows environment. A local user with ability to alter Windows drive names can escalate privileges on the system.
3) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-23085)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak when a remote peer abruptly closes the socket without sending a GOAWAY notification. A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.
4) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-52798)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.5) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-47764)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied cookies. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted cookie to the application and alter values passed to the application.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.