Security Bulletin: Apache Tomcat vulnerabilities affect IBM Watson Text to Speech and Speech to Text (IBM Watson Speech Services for Cloud Pak for Data 1.2)

Summary

Apache Tomcat vulnerabilities, listed below, affect IBM Watson Text to Speech and Speech to Text (IBM Watson Speech Services for Cloud Pak for Data 1.2)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-9484
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tomcat could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe deserialization when the server is configured to use the PersistenceManager with a FileStore. By sending specially-crafted input, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/182231 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Download and install the newest deployment of IBM Watson Speech Services for Cloud Pak for Data 1.2 to your cluster. This deployment includes Tomcat v9.0.38, or higher, which contains the latest fixes for the issues described above.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None