Security Bulletin: A remote code execution vulnerability affect IBM Business Automation Workflow – CVE-2025-27363

IBM Business Automation Workflow containers package a vulnerable version of freetype.

## Vulnerability Details

**CVEID:**CVE-2025-27363
**DESCRIPTION:** An out of bounds write exists in FreeType versions 2.13.0 and below (newer versions of FreeType are not vulnerable) when attempting to parse font subglyph structures related to TrueType GX and variable font files. The vulnerable code assigns a signed short value to an unsigned long and then adds a static value causing it to wrap around and allocate too small of a heap buffer. The code then writes up to 6 signed long integers out of bounds relative to this buffer. This may result in arbitrary code execution. This vulnerability may have been exploited in the wild.
**CWE:**CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
**CVSS Source:** [email protected]
**CVSS Base score:** 8.1
**CVSS Vector:**(CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

## Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)| Version(s)| Status
—|—|—
IBM Business Automation Workflow containers| V24.0.1 – V24.0.1-IF001
V24.0.0 – V24.0.0-IF004
earlier unsupported versions | affected

For earlier and unsupported versions of the products, IBM recommends upgrading to a fixed, supported version of the product.

## Remediation/Fixes

Affected Product(s)| Version(s)| Remediation / Fix
—|—|—
IBM Business Automation Workflow containers| V24.0.1 – V24.0.1-IF001| Apply 24.0.1-IF002
IBM Business Automation Workflow containers| V24.0.0 – V24.0.0-IF004| Apply 24.0.0-IF005
IBM Business Automation Workflow containers| earlier unsupported versions| Upgrade to 24.0.0-IF005 (or later) or 24.0.1-IF002 (or later)

## Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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