Security Bulletin: Watson CP4D Data Stores is vulnerable to Golang Go to a denial of service (CVE-2022-1962)

Summary

Potential Golang Go to a denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2022-1962) has been identified that may affect Watson CP4D Data Stores Refer to details for additional information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-1962
**DESCRIPTION:*Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack exhaustion flaw in all Parse functions. By sending a specially-crafted request, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/232543 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

All versions before 4.7.0

Remediation/Fixes

For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest (v4.7.0 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 (v4.7.0 release information)

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.7.x&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None