Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a denial of service in Hutool [ CVE-2022-45688]

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a denial of service in Hutool, caused by stack-based buffer overflow [ CVE-2022-45688]. Hutool is a component used by our Speech microservices. This vulnerabilitiy has been addressed. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

**CVEID:**CVE-2022-45688 DESCRIPTION: Hutool is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by stack-based buffer overflow. By persuading a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/242881 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

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| 4.8| The fix in 4.8 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.7.4). Version 4.8 can be downloaded and installed from: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data

Workarounds and Mitigations

None