Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to Elasticsearch denial of service vulnerabilities.

Summary

Potential Elasticsearch denial of service vulnerabilitity have been identified that may affect IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. The vulnerability have been addressed. Refer to details for additional information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-31418
**DESCRIPTION:**Elastic Elasticsearch is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by uncontrolled resource consumption. By sending a moderate number of malformed HTTP requests, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to force an Elasticsearch node to exit with an OutOfMemory error.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/270341 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

For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest (v4.8.2 or later releases) release of IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data which maintains backward compatibility with the versions listed above.

Follow instructions for Installing Watson Assistant in Link to Release (v4.8.2 release information)

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.8.x&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None