Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in gRPC affect watsonx.data

Summary

gRPC is vulnerable to a denial of service attack as well as possibly allowing a remote attack to obtain sensitive information. This can affect watsonx.data.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-1428
**DESCRIPTION:**gRPC is vulnerable to a denial of service. By sending a specially crafted header, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258439 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-2023-32731
**DESCRIPTION:**gRPC could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when gRPC HTTP2 stack raised a header size exceeded error. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257688 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

The product needs to be installed or upgraded to the latest available level watsonx.data 2.0.3 or watsonx.data on CPD 5.0.3. Installation/upgrade instructions can be found here: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/watsonxdata/2.0.x?topic=deployment-installing.&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None