Security Bulletin: A Vulnerability with jackson-databind before 2.13.0 affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Summary

A Vulnerability with jackson-databind before 2.13.0 affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. Please see below for details on how to remediate this issue.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-36518
**DESCRIPTION:**FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Java StackOverflow exception. By using a large depth of nested objects, 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/222319 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Please install IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data version 4.0.7

Workarounds and Mitigations

None