Security Bulletin: Watson Machine Learning Community Edition docker containers have been updated to fix a security issue in libcurl

Summary

Watson Machine Learning Community Edition docker containers have been updated to fix a security issue in libcurl. Users should repull the docker containers from dockerhub.com or issue an in-container update.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-8231
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the improper handling of the CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY option. The raw data is sent over that connection to the wrong destination. 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/186954 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

Users should re-pull containers from dockerhub. There are numerous tagged releases, but for example a pull of the base container would be:

docker pull ibmcom/powerai:1.7.0-base-ubuntu18.04-py36-ppc64le-21.035

Alternatively, users can issue:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install curl

Workarounds and Mitigations

None