Security Bulletin: IBM Events Operator is affected by a denial of service in OpenSSL (CVE-2023-0215).

Summary

OpenSSL is used by IBM Events Operator as part of its Operating System (CVE-2023-0215).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-0215
**DESCRIPTION:**OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free error related to the incorrect handling of streaming ASN.1 data by the BIO_new_NDEF function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/246614 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading

Upgrade to IBM Events Operator 4.8.0.

This gets included into IBM Common Services and is included in 3.19.x, 3.23.x and 4.x channels. Follow the upgrading and migrating to upgrade to a newer version of IBM Common Services.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None