Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Python-RSA

Summary

BM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Python-RSA.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-13757
**DESCRIPTION:**Python-RSA is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw during the decryption of ciphertext. By sending a specially-crafted request, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/182813 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.1.4

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None