Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Golang Go

2023-05-0222:50:14

www.ibm.com

ibm watson discovery

cloud pak for data

http request smuggling

golang go

vulnerability

upgrade

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

7.1

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

55.1%

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Summary

IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Golang Go.

Vulnerability Details

**CVEID:**CVE-2022-41721 DESCRIPTION: Golang Go is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by a flaw when using MaxBytesHandler. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP(S) transfer-encoding request header, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/244775 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
Watson Discovery	4.0.0-4.6.3

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.6.5

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-install

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

ibmwatson_discoveryMatch4.0.0

ibmwatson_discoveryMatch4.6.3

VendorProductVersionCPE
ibmwatson_discovery4.0.0cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watson_discovery:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibmwatson_discovery4.6.3cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watson_discovery:4.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*