SB2022063010 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Security Bulletin ID SB2022063010

Severity

Medium

Patch available

YES

Number of vulnerabilities 3

Exploitation vector Remote access

Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Medium
High
Critical

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22971)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input within the Spring application with a STOMP over WebSocket endpoint. A remote user can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22970)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input within the Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux applications. A remote user can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

3) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22968)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to patterns for disallowedFields on a DataBinder are case sensitive, which means a field is not effectively protected unless it is listed with both upper and lower case for the first character of the field, including upper and lower case for the first character of all nested fields within the property path. A remote attacker can bypass implemented security restrictions by passing case sensitive data to the application.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

SB2022063010 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

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