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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-21330
**DESCRIPTION:**AIOHTTP could allow a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks, caused by a bug in the aiohttp.web_middlewares.normalize_path_middleware middleware. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted link to redirect a victim to arbitrary Web sites.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197470 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.0.2

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.2.1 and apply cpd-watson-discovery-2.2.1-patch-4

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

<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/available-patches-watson-discovery-ibm-cloud-pak-data&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None