Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to cross-site scripting in Apache Tomcat (CVE-2022-34305)

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to cross-site scripting in Apache Tomcat, which risks exposure of cookie-based authentication credentials. (CVE-2022-34305). Apache Tomcat is used as a component in some of our TTS speech service images. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-34305
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the Form authentication example in the examples web application to inject malicious script into a Web page which would be executed in a victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the page is viewed. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim’s cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base score: 6.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229596 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading.

Product(s)|**Version(s)
**|Remediation/Fix/Instructions
—|—|—
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data|4.5.3|The fix in 4.5.3 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.5.2). Version 4.5.3 can be downloaded and installed from:
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.5.x?topic=installing&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None