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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-32287
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache UIMA could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by improper validation of user supplied input in a FileUtil class used by the PEAR management component. An attacker could use a specially-crafted archive file containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to create files outside the designated target directory using carefully crafted ZIP entry names.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239434 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.8.2

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None