Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in FasterXML jackson-databind

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of FasterXML jackson-databind.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-46877
**DESCRIPTION:**FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when using JDK serialization for serialization/deserialization Jackson types. By sending a specially crafted request, 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/250455 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

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.6.5

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None