Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a sensitive information exposure in Apache Tomcat [CVE-2023-42795]

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a sensitive information exposure in Apache Tomcat, caused by an incomplete Cleanup vulnerability when recycling various internal objects [CVE-2023-42795]. Apache Tomcat is used as a component of our Speech microservices. This vulnerabilitiy has been addressed. Please read the details for remediation below

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-42795
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an incomplete Cleanup vulnerability when recycling various internal objects. By skipping some parts of the recycling process, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information leaking from the current request/response to the next.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268201 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading.

Product(s)|**Version(s)
**|Remediation/Fix/Instructions
—|—|—
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data| 4.8.2| The fix in 4.8.2 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.8.1). Version 4.8.2 can be downloaded and installed from: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None