Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to Libksba abitrary code execution vulnerability( CVE-2022-47629)

Summary

Potential Libksba abitrary code executionvulnerability( CVE-2022-47629) has been identified that may affect IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. Refer to details for additional information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-47629
**DESCRIPTION:**Libksba could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in the CRL signature parser. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/242850 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest (v4.7.0 or later releases) release of IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data which maintains backward compatibility with the versions listed above.

Follow instructions for Installing Watson Assistant in Link to Release (v4.7.0 release information)

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.7.x&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None