SB2023012105 - Man-in-the-middle attack in IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data



SB2023012105 - Man-in-the-middle attack in IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Published: January 21, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023012105
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Man-in-the-middle attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1000021)

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to insufficient validation of messages received from a Git server, which could include ANSI escape codes to the terminal on affected Git clients. A remote attacker can trick the victim into sending a request and interact with a malicious Git server and execute arbitrary code.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.