Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in 'GNU Wget' affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2018-20483)

Summary

A vulnerability in ‘GNU Wget’ affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2018-20483). Please see the details below on how to remediate this issue.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2018-20483
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU Wget could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the storing of the origin URL in the user.xdg.origin.url metadata in the set_file_metadata function in xattr.c. By reading the metadata attribute, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/154793 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Please update to version 4.0.8 of IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. This update can be downloaded from here:

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=overview-whats-new&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None