Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in rexml-3.2.8

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of rexml-3.2.8

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-39908
**DESCRIPTION:**Ruby REXML is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled resource consumption flaw. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/298413 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

4.0.0-4.8.5

ICP - Discovery

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5.0.0

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.8.6 or 5.0.1

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None