Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Python Cryptographic Authority cryptography

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Python Cryptographic Authority cryptography.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-38325
**DESCRIPTION:**Python Cryptographic Authority cryptography could provide weaker than expected security, caused by an encoding mismatch regarding critical options with OpenSSH. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attacks on the system
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/260859 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.7.3

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None