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HistoryNov 30, 2022 - 10:25 a.m.

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Apache Tomcat

2022-11-3010:25:34

www.ibm.com

ibm watson discovery

ibm cloud pak for data

apache tomcat

vulnerability

cve-2021-43980

security bulletin

upgrade

CVSS3

3.7

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

AI Score

5.3

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

58.5%

JSON

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Apache Tomcat.

Vulnerability Details

**CVEID:**CVE-2021-43980 DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a long standing concurrency flaw in the simplified implementation of blocking reads and writes. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain Http11Processor instance information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237447 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
Watson Discovery	4.0.0-4.5.3

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.6.0

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-install

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

ibmwatson_discoveryMatch4.0.0

ibmwatson_discoveryMatch4.5.3

VendorProductVersionCPE
ibmwatson_discovery4.0.0cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watson_discovery:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibmwatson_discovery4.5.3cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watson_discovery:4.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*