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Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities in WebSphere Liberty affecting Watson Knowledge Catalog for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Description

## Summary WebSphere liberty is vulnerable to a DOS that is impacting Watson Knowledge Catalog for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. This vulnerability has been addressed. ## Vulnerability Details ** CVEID: **[CVE-2021-35517](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-35517>) ** DESCRIPTION: **Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out of memory error when allocating large amounts of memory. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TAR archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress' tar package. CVSS Base score: 5.5 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205307](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205307>) for the current score. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) ** CVEID: **[CVE-2021-36090](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-36090>) ** DESCRIPTION: **Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-memory error when large amounts of memory are allocated. By reading a specially-crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress' zip package. CVSS Base score: 7.5 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205310](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205310>) 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 Affected Product(s)| Version(s) ---|--- IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog on-prem| 3.5 IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog on-prem| 4.0 ## Remediation/Fixes Watson Knowledge Catalog for IBM Cloud Pak for Data 4.0: install Refresh 4 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=overview-whats-new#whats-new__refresh-4> Watson Knowledge Catalog for IBM Cloud Pak for Data 3.5.1: install Refresh 12 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 3.5: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/3.5.0?topic=overview-whats-new#whats-new__refresh-12> ## Workarounds and Mitigations None. WebSphere Liberty must be upgraded. ##


Affected Software


CPE Name Name Version
ibm cloud pak for data 2.5

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