Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Node.js

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Node.js.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-43548
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by an insufficient IsAllowedHost check. By sending a specially-crafted DBS request using an invalid octal address, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct a DNS rebinding attack and execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241552 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Watson Discovery

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4.0.0-4.6.0

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.6.2

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None