SB2023070307 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data 

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SB2023070307 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Published: July 3, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023070307
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-27488)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when "failure_mode_allow: true" is configured for ext_authz filter. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and gain elevated privileges on the target system.


2) Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25881)

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

The vulnerability exists due to regular expression denial of service that occurs when the server reads the cache policy from the request using this library. A remote unauthenticated attacker can send malicious request header values to the server and perform a denial of service attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References