Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling in Golang Go ( CVE-2022-41721)

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling in Golang Go, caused by a flaw when using MaxBytesHandler (CVE-2022-41721). Golang Go is included as part of the operators used by our speech services. This vulnerabilitiy has been addressed. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-41721
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by a flaw when using MaxBytesHandler. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP(S) transfer-encoding request header, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/244775 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading.

Product(s)|**Version(s)
**|Remediation/Fix/Instructions
—|—|—
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data| 4.7| The fix in 4.7 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.6.6). Version 4.7 can be downloaded and installed from: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None