Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in lodash shipped with PowerAI.

Summary

Vulnerability CVE-2019-10744 found in lodash package.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-10744
**DESCRIPTION:**Versions of lodash lower than 4.17.12 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution. The function defaultsDeep could be tricked into adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype using a constructor payload.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/167415 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Note : The product was renamed after the 1.6.0 version.

Remediation/Fixes

For IBM PowerAI 1.5.4 and Watson Machine Learning Accelerator 1.1.2:

Download fix : http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/quickorder?product=ibm%2FOther+software%2FIBM+PowerAI&fixids=powerai-security-fix-ppc64le-rhel-1.5.4&source=SAR

Install instructions: <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1135077&gt;

For IBM PowerAI 1.6.0 andWatson Machine Learning Community Edition 1.6.1 :

Upgrade to WML CE 1.6.2, which includes the fixes. See <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS5SF7&gt; for upgrading instructions.

ForWatson Machine Learning Community Edition 1.6.2 :

For installing WML CE from scratch

New installations of WML CE include all security fixes. See <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS5SF7&gt; for installation instructions.

Updating an existing WML CE installation

It is recommended to keep packages up to date. To update all packages to the latest versions use:

conda update --all

To update individual packages, use the package name:

conda update tensorboard

If you have previously installed WML CE using the powerai meta-package, you can also use that to update to the latest packages.

conda update powerai

Workarounds and Mitigations

None