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

Summary

Spring Framework 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-2020-5421
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Spring Framework could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper input validation. By using a specially-crafted jsessionid path parameter, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass RFD Protection.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/188530 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

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 Spring Framework 5.2.9, or higher, which contains the latest fixes for the issues described above.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None