Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is affected by multiple vulnerabilities Ansibel Runner.

Summary

Potential multiple vulnerabilities in Ansibel Runner has been identified that may affect IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. Refer to details for additional information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-3701
**DESCRIPTION:**Ansible Runner could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by default temporary files are written to world R/W locations. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read private information or force ansible-runner to write files as the legitimate user in an unintended place.
CVSS Base score: 6.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222680 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2021-3702
**DESCRIPTION:**Ansible Runner could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a race condition. By substituting a temporary directory for another directory during file operations, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access private_data_dir.
CVSS Base score: 6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222681 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2021-4041
**DESCRIPTION:**Ansible Runner could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper shell escaping of the shell command. By sending a specially-crafted request using the ansible_runner.interface.run_command, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the host system.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/234439 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-3697
**DESCRIPTION:**Ansible Collections Amazon AWS Collection could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when using the tower_callback parameter from the amazon.aws.ec2_instance module. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain password information from the log file, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241191 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest (v4.7.0 or later releases) release of IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data which maintains backward compatibility with the versions listed above.

Follow instructions for Installing Watson Assistant in Link to Release (v4.7.0 release information)

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.7.x&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None