Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Commons Compress affects watsonx.data

Summary

Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service. For CVE-2021-35515, when reading a specially crafted 7Z archive, the construction of the list of codecs that decompress an entry can result in an infinite loop. For CVE-2021-35516, when reading a specially crafted 7Z archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. Either of these vulnerabilities could be used to mount a denial of service attack against watsonx.data.

Vulnerability Details

**CVEID:**CVE-2021-35515 DESCRIPTION: Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop flaw in the construction of the list of codecs that decompress an entry. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted 7Z archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress’ sevenz package.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205304 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

**CVEID:**CVE-2021-35516 DESCRIPTION: Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-memory error when large amounts of memory are allocated. By reading a specially-crafted 7Z archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress’ sevenz package.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205306 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

The product needs to be installed or upgraded to the latest available level watsonx.data 2.0.2 or watsonx.data on CPD 5.0.2. Installation/upgrade instructions can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/watsonxdata/2.0.x?topic=deployment-installing

Workarounds and Mitigations

None