Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a security restrictions bypass in Amazon AWS S3 Crypto SDK for GoLang (CVE-2020-8912)

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a security restrictions bypass in Amazon AWS S3 Crypto SDK for GoLang caused by a flaw in the in-band key negotiation. (CVE-2020-8912). Amazon AWS S3 Crypto SDK for GoLang is included as part of the Base OS operators used by our service images. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-8912
**DESCRIPTION:**Amazon AWS S3 Crypto SDK for GoLang could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw in the in-band key negotiation. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to change the encryption algorithm of an object in the bucket or obtain the authentication key used by AES-GCM.
CVSS Base score: 2.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/186760 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading.

Product(s)|**Version(s)
|Remediation/Fix/Instructions
—|—|—
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data| 4.6.4| The fix in 4.6.4 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.6.3). Version 4.6.4 can be downloaded and installed from: **
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=installing&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None