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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-27664
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in net/http. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a closing HTTP/2 server connection to hang, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235355 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-41715
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the compilation of regular expressions from untrusted sources. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available memory resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240559 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2879
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to set a limit on the maximum size of file headers by Reader.Read. By using a specially crafted archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available memory resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240560 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2880
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to conduct query parameter smuggling, caused by the inclusion of unparseable parameters rejected by net/http in requests forwarded by ReverseProxy. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct query parameter smuggling.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240561 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-32190
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by not remove …/ path elements appended to a relative path in JoinPath and URL.JoinPath. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to view arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236126 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.6.3

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None