Security Bulletin: Vulnerability affects Watson Explorer Foundational Components (CVE-2019-1559)

Summary

Security vulnerability affects IBM Watson Explorer Foundational Components.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2019-1559

DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to immediately close the TCP connection after the hosts encounter a zero-length record with valid padding. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a 0-byte record padding-oracle attack to decrypt traffic.
CVSS Base Score: 5.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/157514&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

The vulnerability applies to the following products and versions:

Affected Product

| Affected Versions
—|—
IBM Watson Explorer Deep Analytics Edition Foundational Components |

12.0.0,
12.0.1,

12.0.2.0 - 12.0.2.2

IBM Watson Explorer Foundational Components | 11.0.0.0 - 11.0.0.3,
11.0.1,
11.0.2.0 - 11.0.2.4
IBM Watson Explorer Foundational Components | 10.0.0.0 - 10.0.0.5

Remediation/Fixes

Follow these steps to upgrade to the required version of OpenSSL.

The table reflects product names at the time the specified versions were released. To use the links to Fix Central in this table, you must first log in to the IBM Support: Fix Central site at <http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;.

12.0.0,

12.0.1,

12.0.2 - 12.0.2.2

|

Upgrade to Version 12.0.3.

See Watson Explorer Version 12.0.3 Foundational Components for download information and instructions.

IBM Watson Explorer
Foundational Components | 11.0 - 11.0.0.3,
11.0.1,
11.0.2 - 11.0.2.4 |

Upgrade to Version 11.0.2.5.

See Watson Explorer Version 11.0.2.5 Foundational Components for download information and instructions.

IBM Watson Explorer
Foundational Components | 10.0 - 10.0.0.5
|

Upgrade to Version 10.0.0.6.

See Watson Explorer Version 10.0.0.6 Foundational Components for download information and instructions.