Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in TensorFlow

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of TensorFlow.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-5215
**DESCRIPTION:**Tensorflow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when converting a string (from Python) to a tf.float16 value. By sending a specially-crafted string, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a segmentation fault.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/175440 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.1.3

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None