Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Elastic Elasticsearch.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-7009
**DESCRIPTION:**Elastic Elasticsearch could allow a remote authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a flaw in the authentication API key. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/178916 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.1.3

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None