Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Terracotta Quartz Scheduler

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Terracotta Quartz Scheduler.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-13990
**DESCRIPTION:**Terracotta could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by improper handling of XML external entity (XXE) declarations by the initDocumentParser function in xml/XMLSchedulingDataProcessor.java. By persuading a victim to open specially-crafted XML content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/165431 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.1.4

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None