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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-41853
**DESCRIPTION:**HSQLDB could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the java.sql.Statement or java.sql.PreparedStatement components. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237983 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

4.0.0-4.6.0

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.6.2

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None