Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in json-smart

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of json-smart.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-1370
**DESCRIPTION:**netplex json-smart-v2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by not limiting the nesting of arrays or objects. By sending a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a stack exhaustion and crash the software.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/249885 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

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.7.0

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None