Security Bulletin: A vulnerability with Guava affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2020-8908)

Summary

A vulnerability with Guava affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2020-8908). Please see below for details on how to remediate this issue.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-8908
**DESCRIPTION:**Guava could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a temp directory creation vulnerability in com.google.common.io.Files.createTempDir(). By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/192996 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Please install IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data, version 4.0.8. This version can be download from here:

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=overview-whats-new&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None