Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Google Protocol Buffers

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Google Protocol Buffers.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-22569
**DESCRIPTION:**Google Protocol Buffer (protobuf-java) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an issue with allow interleaving of com.google.protobuf.UnknownFieldSet fields. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a timeout in ProtobufFuzzer function, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216851 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2015-5237
**DESCRIPTION:**Google Protocol Buffers could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in MessageLite::SerializeToString. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/105989 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.0.9

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None