Security Bulletin: IBM Watson CP4D Data Stores is vulnerable to Elastic Elasticsearch-Hadoop arbitrary code execution vulnerabilitiy.(CVE-2023-46674)

Summary

Potential Elastic Elasticsearch-Hadoop arbitrary code execution vulnerabilitiy.(CVE-2023-46674)has been identified that may affect IBM Watson CP4D Data Stores. The vulnerability have been addressed. Refer to details for additional information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-46674
**DESCRIPTION:**Elastic Elasticsearch-Hadoop could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe deserialization in the Java objects from hadoop or spark configuration properties. By sending specially crafted input, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/273395 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest release (v5.0 or later releases) of IBM Watson CP4D Data Stores which maintains backward compatibility with the versions listed above.

Follow instructions for Installing IBM Watson CP4D Data Stores in Link to Release (v5.0 or later releases) release information.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.0.x

Workarounds and Mitigations

None