Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a denial of service in Pallets Werkzeug [CVE-2023-46136]

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a denial of service in Pallets Werkzeug, caused by a flaw when parsing multipart/form-data containing a large part with CR/LF character at the beginning [ CVE-2023-46136]. Pallets Werkzeug is used in our Speech Services runtimes. This vulnerabilitiy has been addressed. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-46136
**DESCRIPTION:**Pallets Werkzeug is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when parsing multipart/form-data containing a large part with CR/LF character at the beginning. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/269739 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Product(s)|**Version(s)
**|Remediation/Fix/Instructions
—|—|—
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data| 4.8.5| The fix in 4.8.5 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.8.4). Version 4.8.5 can be downloaded and installed from: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None