Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM watsonx.data

Published: 2024-09-04

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2021-37136 CVE-2021-37137
CWE-ID	CWE-400 CWE-20
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software Subscribe	watsonx.data Web applications / JS libraries
Vendor	IBM Corporation

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU63127

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-37136

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in Bzip2 decompression decoder function. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

watsonx.data: before 2.0.2

External links

http://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7167177

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

2) Improper input validation

EUVDB-ID: #VU59924