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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-29582
**DESCRIPTION:**JetBrains Kotlin could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an insecure permission flaw when creating temporary file and folder by the Java API. By gaining access to the temporary directory, 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: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196239 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.0.2

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.2.1 and apply cpd-watson-discovery-2.2.1-patch-4

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

<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/available-patches-watson-discovery-ibm-cloud-pak-data&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None