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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-41966
**DESCRIPTION:**XStream is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow. By manipulating the processed input stream at unmarshalling time, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to replace or inject objects and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 8.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/243448 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Watson Discovery

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4.0.0-4.6.0

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.6.2

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None