Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Apache HttpClient

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Apache HttpClient.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-13956
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache HttpClient could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the improper handling of malformed authority component in request URIs. By passing request URIs to the library as java.net.URI object, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to pick the wrong target host for request execution.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/189572 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.2.1

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None