Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Pypa Setuptools

2023-05-0222:29:46

www.ibm.com

ibm watson discovery

ibm cloud pak for data

vulnerability

pypa setuptools

denial of service

remote attacker

upgrade

ibm cloud documentation

CVSS3

5.9

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

EPSS

0.005

Percentile

77.3%

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Summary

IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Pypa Setuptools.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-40897
**DESCRIPTION:**Pypa Setuptools is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending request with a specially crafted regular expression, an remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/243028 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
Watson Discovery	4.0.0-4.6.3

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.6.5

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

ibmwatson_discoveryMatch4.0.0

ibmwatson_discoveryMatch4.6.3

VendorProductVersionCPE
ibmwatson_discovery4.0.0cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watson_discovery:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibmwatson_discovery4.6.3cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watson_discovery:4.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*