Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Spring

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Spring.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-5421
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Spring Framework could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper input validation. By using a specially-crafted jsessionid path parameter, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass RFD Protection.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/188530 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.2.1

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None