Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in pdfjs-dist

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of pdfjs-dist

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-4367
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a missing type check when handling fonts in PDF.js. By persuading a victim to visit a specially crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/290483 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.8.7 or 5.0.3 and <https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-install&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None