Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities present in IBM Answer Retrieval for Watson Discovery versions 2.11 and earlier

Summary

This fix upgrades to grpc 1.55.1, jersey 2.39.1, jackson 2.15.2, and socket.io 4.6.2.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-31125
**DESCRIPTION:**Engine.IO is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncaught exception. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/254734 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-32732
**DESCRIPTION:**gRPC is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a base64 encoding error for “-bin” suffixed headers. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a termination of connection between a HTTP2 proxy and a gRPC server, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257693 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-32731
**DESCRIPTION:**gRPC could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when gRPC HTTP2 stack raised a header size exceeded error. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257688 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-35116
**DESCRIPTION:**Fasterxml jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based overflow. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258157 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)

**IBM X-Force ID:**256137
**DESCRIPTION:**FasterXML Jackson Core is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation by the StreamReadConstraints value field. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/256137 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Workarounds and Mitigations

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