Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Apache Thrift

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Apache Thrift.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-0205
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Thrift is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when processing untrusted Thrift payload. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/169460 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2019-0210
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Thrift is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read in a server implemented in Go using TJSONProtocol or TSimpleJSONProtocol. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to panic.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/169459 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2020-13949
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Thrift is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending specially-crafted messages, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a large memory allocation.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196738 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.6.5

<https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-install&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None