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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-38999
**DESCRIPTION:**jrburke requirejs could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a prototype pollution in the function s.contexts._.configure. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/297179 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2024-38998
**DESCRIPTION:**jrburke requirejs could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a prototype pollution in the function config. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/297183 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

4.0.0-4.8.5

ICP - Discovery| 5.0.0

Remediation/Fixes

Strongly encouraged to upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.8.6 or 5.0.1

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None