Security Bulletin: Decision Optimization in IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to Natural Intelligence fast-xml-parser denial of service (CVE-2023-34104)

Summary

Decision Optimization in IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a denial of service of Natural Intelligence fast-xml-parser with details below. This vulnerability has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-34104
**DESCRIPTION:**Natural Intelligence fast-xml-parser is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the Doctype Entities. By sending a specially crafted regex input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257474 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

Users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to IBM Decision Optimization for IBM Cloud Pak for Data 4.7.2 and subsequent releases.
Here is the detailed information on Upgrading IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Workarounds and Mitigations

None