Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in google-protobuf-3.11.2.gem

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of google-protobuf-3.11.2.gem

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-3171
**DESCRIPTION:**protobuf-java core and lite are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the parsing procedure for binary and text format data. By sending non-repeated embedded messages with repeated or unknown fields, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause long garbage collection pauses.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238394 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

4.0.0 - 4.8.5

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 5.0.0 / 4.8.6 and <https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-install&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None