Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to VMware Tanzu Spring Boot arbitrary denial of service vulnerability ( CVE-2023-34053)

Summary

Potential VMware Tanzu Spring Boot arbitrary denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2023-34053) has been identified that may affect IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. The vulnerability have been addressed. Refer to details for additional information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-34053
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Spring Framework is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when the application uses Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux, io.micrometer:micrometer-core is on the classpath, or an ObservationRegistry is configured. By sending specially crafted HTTP requests, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/272535 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

For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest (v5.0 or later releases) release of IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data which maintains backward compatibility with the versions listed above.

Follow instructions for Installing Watson Assistant in Link to Release (v5.0 release information)

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.0.x&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None