Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in OpenCV

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of OpenCV

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-2617
**DESCRIPTION:**OpenCV wechat_qrcode Module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the DecodedBitStreamParser::decodeByteSegment function at qrcode/decoder/decoded_bit_stream_parser.cpp. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255903 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-2618
**DESCRIPTION:**OpenCV wechat_qrcode Module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak in the DecodedBitStreamParser::decodeHanziSegment function at qrcode/decoder/decoded_bit_stream_parser.cpp. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255902 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.8.6/ 5.0.1 and <https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-install&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None