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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-21290
**DESCRIPTION:**Netty could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an insecure temp file in Unix-like systems. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197110 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.0.2

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.2.1 and apply cpd-watson-discovery-2.2.1-patch-4

<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