Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in GnuPG [CVE-2022-3515 and CVE-2022-34903]

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of GnuPG. [CVE-2022-3515 and CVE-2022-34903] This has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-3515
**DESCRIPTION:**GnuPG Libksba could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in the CRL parser. By sending a specially-crafted data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239062 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-34903
**DESCRIPTION:**GnuPG could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by a flaw when processing secret-key information from keyring. By sending a specially-crafted request to perform injection into the status line, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform signature spoofing.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/230354 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to IBM Watson Discovery 4.6.0:

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None