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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-40159
**DESCRIPTION:**JXPath is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in parsing XPath. By sending specially-crafted content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237930 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-40160
**DESCRIPTION:**JXPath is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in parsing XPath. By sending specially-crafted content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237929 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-40161
**DESCRIPTION:**JXPath is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in parsing XPath. By sending specially-crafted content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237927 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-41852
**DESCRIPTION:**JXPath could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the JXPathContext class functions. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237984 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-40157
**DESCRIPTION:**JXPath is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in parsing XPath. By sending specially-crafted content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237932 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-40158
**DESCRIPTION:**JXPath is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in parsing XPath. By sending specially-crafted content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237931 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.6.0

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

10 Nov 2022: Initial Publication

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Document Location

Worldwide

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