Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to minimatch denial of service (CVE-2022-3517)

Summary

Potential denial of service vulnerability in minimatch, ( CVE-2022-3517) has been identified that may affect IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. Refer to details for additional information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-3517
**DESCRIPTION:**minimatch is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the braceExpand function. By sending specially-crafted regex arguments, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238615 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

For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest (v4.6) release of IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data which maintains backward compatibility with the versions listed above.

Follow instructions for Installing Watson Assistant in Link to Release (v4.6 release information)

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x

Workarounds and Mitigations

None