Security Bulletin: A Vulnerability In Apache Commons IO Affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Summary

A Vulnerability In Apache Commons IO Affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. Please see below for details and remediation/Fixes for this issue.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-29425
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Commons IO could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by improper input validation by the FileNameUtils.normalize method. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to view arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/199852 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

Please install the newest version of IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data:
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data v4.0.6

Workarounds and Mitigations

None