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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-3733
**DESCRIPTION:**Python is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the AbstractBasicAuthHandler class in urllib. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/213034 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2021-3737
**DESCRIPTION:**Python is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper handling of HTTP response in the HTTP client code. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the client script enter an infinite loop, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/213407 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.5.0

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None