Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in pypdf2-3.0.1-py3-none-any.whl

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of pypdf2-3.0.1-py3-none-any.whl

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-36464
**DESCRIPTION:**py-pdf pypdfis vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop if __parse_content_stream is executed. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume available CPU resource, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/259148 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.8.4

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None