Security Bulletin: A vulnerability with GNU Wget affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2018-0494)

Summary

A vulnerability with GNU Wget affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2018-0494). Please see the details below on how to remediate this issue.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2018-0494
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU Wget could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to properly process Set-Cookie responses. By sending a specially-crafted Set-Cookie -header request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary cookies into the cookie jar file and set and modify cookies on the target system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/142899 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Please update IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data to version 4.0.8. This update is available here:

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=overview-whats-new&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None