Security Bulletin: IBM Watson OpenScale on Cloud Pak for Data is impacted by CVE-2021-3177

Summary

IBM Watson OpenScale on Cloud Pak for Data has addressed CVE-2021-3177.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-3177
**DESCRIPTION:**Python is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the PyCArg_repr function in _ctypes/callproc.c. By sending specially-crafted arguments to c_double.from_param, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/195244 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Please consult the online documentation, ‘Available patches for Watson OpenScale for IBM Cloud Pak for Data’, for updates/patches to remediate the vulnerabilities.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None