Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to urllib3 sensitive information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2023-43804)

Summary

Potential urllib3 sensitive information disclosure vulnerabilitity have been identified that may affect IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. The vulnerability have been addressed. Refer to details for additional information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-43804
**DESCRIPTION:**urllib3 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw with cookie request header not stripped during cross-origin redirects. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268192 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-45803
**DESCRIPTION:**urllib3 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw with not remove the HTTP request body when an HTTP redirect response using status 303. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 4.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/269079 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest (v4.8.2 or later releases) release of IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data which maintains backward compatibility with the versions listed above.

Follow instructions for Installing Watson Assistant in Link to Release (v4.8.2 release information)

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.8.x&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None