Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Gorilla Web Toolkit affects IBM watsonx.data

Summary

Gorilla web toolkit schema is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory exhaustion flaw due to sparse slice deserialization. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition. This can affect watsonx.data.

Vulnerability Details

**CVEID:**CVE-2024-37298 DESCRIPTION: Gorilla web toolkit schema is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory exhaustion flaw due to sparse slice deserialization. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/350789 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

The product needs to be installed or upgraded to the latest available level watsonx.data 2.0.3 or watsonx.data on CPD 5.0.3. Installation/upgrade instructions can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/watsonxdata/2.0.x?topic=deployment-installing.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None