Security Bulletin: IBM Watson CP4D Data Stores is vulnerable to Elastic Elasticsearch denial of service vulnerabilitiy.(CVE-2023-31418)

Summary

Potential Elastic Elasticsearch denial of service vulnerabilitiy.(CVE-2023-31418) has been identified that may affect IBM Watson CP4D Data Stores. The vulnerability have been addressed. Refer to details for additional information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-31418
**DESCRIPTION:**Elastic Elasticsearch is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by uncontrolled resource consumption. By sending a moderate number of malformed HTTP requests, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to force an Elasticsearch node to exit with an OutOfMemory error.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/270341 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

For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest release (v5.0 or later releases) of IBM Watson CP4D Data Stores which maintains backward compatibility with the versions listed above.

Follow instructions for Installing IBM Watson CP4D Data Stores in Link to Release (v5.0 or later releases) release information.

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None