Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in VMware Tanzu Spring Boot

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of VMware Tanzu Spring Boot .

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-34055
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Spring Boot is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when application uses Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux or org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-actuator is on the classpath. By sending specially crafted HTTP requests, 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/272537 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-2023-47510
**DESCRIPTION:**WPDBSpringClean Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted URL in the wcemails_edit parameter to execute a script in a victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim’s cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/272368 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.8.2

<https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-install&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None