Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Assistant for Cloud pak for Data is affected by vulnerabilities in Webpack [CVE-2023-28154]

Summary

Potential security bypass vulnerability in Webpack has been identified that may affect IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. IBM has addressed this vulnerability. Refer to details for additional information. [CVE-2023-28154]

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-28154
**DESCRIPTION:**Webpack could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the mishandling of the magic comment feature by the ImportParserPlugin.js. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain access to the real global object.
CVSS Base score: 9.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/249874 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest (v4.6.2) 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 (v4.6.5 release information)

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None