Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in nanopb shipped with IBM Watson Machine Learning Community Edition (WMLCE)

Summary

The vulnerability CVE-2020-5235 was found in the nanopb package, which is either built in to or distributed with IBM WMLCE.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-5235
**DESCRIPTION:**Nanopb is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a out of memory condition. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/175958 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

All IBM WMLCE distribution channels have been updated. For those using containers, pulling the image again from its upstream container registry (<https://hub.docker.com/r/ibmcom/powerai&gt;, <https://catalog.redhat.com>) will download an updated image with CVEs resolved. All others should update directly from our conda channel via conda update.

For information regarding WMLCE see <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS5SF7&gt; .

Workarounds and Mitigations

None