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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-22096
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Spring Framework could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions. By sending a specially-crafted input, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the insertion of additional log entries.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/212430 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.0.5

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.2.1 and apply cpd-watson-discovery-2.2.1-patch-6

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

<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/available-patches-watson-discovery-ibm-cloud-pak-data&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None