Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in FasterXML jackson-databind

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data ships with versions of FasterXML jackson-databind vulnerable to serialization gadgets.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-17531
**DESCRIPTION:**A Polymorphic Typing issue was discovered in FasterXML jackson-databind 2.0.0 through 2.9.10. When Default Typing is enabled (either globally or for a specific property) for an externally exposed JSON endpoint and the service has the apache-log4j-extra (version 1.2.x) jar in the classpath, and an attacker can provide a JNDI service to access, it is possible to make the service execute a malicious payload.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/169073 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.1

<https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQNUZ_2.5.0/cpd/svc/watson/discovery-install.html&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None