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

Summary

Vulnerabilities in Apache CXF and Swagger are affecting WebSphere Liberty in Watson Knowledge Catalog for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. These vulnerabilities have been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-12406
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache CXF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to restrict the number of message attachments present in a given message. By sending a specially-crafted message containing an overly large number of message attachments, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/170974 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2019-17495
**DESCRIPTION:**Swagger UI could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a CSS injection flaw. By using the relative path overwrite (RPO) attack technique, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/169050 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Install wkc-patch-3.0.0.5 for IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

Contact IBM support for more details.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None. WebSphere Liberty must be upgraded.