Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Ratpack

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Ratpack.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-11808
**DESCRIPTION:**Ratpack could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the use of a weak PRNG to generate session ID in JDK’s ThreadLocalRandom. By gaining a small window for the server start time and a session ID value, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain the sequence of session IDs.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/160664 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2019-17513
**DESCRIPTION:**Ratpack is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web page, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary HTTP headers, which will allow the attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/169577 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.1.4

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None