Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in setuptools affects Data Replication on Cloud Pak for Data

Summary

A vulnerability in the setuptools package has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-40897
**DESCRIPTION:**Pypa Setuptools is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending request with a specially crafted regular expression, an remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/243028 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Update to the latest product fix pack found here: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.8.x?topic=new-data-replication&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None