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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-23181
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tomcat could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a time of check, time of use flaw when configured to persist sessions using the FileStore. By sending a specially-crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform actions with the privileges of Tomcat process.
CVSS Base score: 7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/218221 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.5.0

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None