Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in rexml-3.2.6

2024-08-2918:55:21

www.ibm.com

ibm watson discovery

ibm cloud pak for data

vulnerability

rexml-3.2.6

cve-2024-35176

denial of service

input validation

upgrade

CVSS3

5.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

AI Score

Confidence

High

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Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of rexml-3.2.6

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-35176
**DESCRIPTION:**Ruby REXML is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By parsing a specially crafted XML content contains many ~~~~
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/290907 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

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
ICP - Discovery	4.0.0-4.8.5

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.8.6 or 5.0.0

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

ibmwatson_discoveryMatch4.0.0

ibmwatson_discoveryMatch4.8.5

VendorProductVersionCPE
ibmwatson_discovery4.0.0cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watson_discovery:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibmwatson_discovery4.8.5cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watson_discovery:4.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*