Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a denial of service in Golang Go (CVE-2022-32149)

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a denial of service in Golang Go, caused by improper input validation by the golang.org/x/text/language package (CVE-2022-32149). Golang Go, is included as part of the operators used in our service. This vulnerabilitiy has been addressed. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-32149
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation by the golang.org/x/text/language package. By sending a specially-crafted Accept-Language header, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause ParseAcceptLanguage to take significant time to parse, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238605 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| 4.7| The fix in 4.7 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.6.6). Version 4.7 can be downloaded and installed from: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data&gt; **

Workarounds and Mitigations

None