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
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
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.