Hybrid Audio Detection Using Fine-Tuned Audio Spectrogram Transformers: a Dataset-Driven Evaluation of Mixed AI-Human Speech

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence AI has enabled sophisticated audio generation and voice cloning technologies, posing significant security risks for applications reliant on voice authentication. While existing datasets and models primarily focus on distinguishing between human and...

Beyond Text: Unveiling Privacy Vulnerabilities in Multi-Modal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation MRAG systems enhance LMMs by integrating external multimodal databases, but introduce unexplored privacy vulnerabilities. While text-based RAG privacy risks have been studied, multimodal data presents unique challenges. We provide the first systematic...

Trump Signs Controversial Law Targeting Nonconsensual Sexual Content

The Take It Down Act requires platforms to remove instances of “intimate visual depiction” within two days. Free speech advocates warn it could be weaponized to fuel censorship...

Remote Rowhammer Attack Using Adversarial Observations on Federated Learning Clients

Federated Learning FL has the potential for simultaneous global learning amongst a large number of parallel agents, enabling emerging AI such as LLMs to be trained across demographically diverse data. Central to this being efficient is the ability for FL to perform sparse gradient updates and...

BadLingual: a Novel Lingual-Backdoor Attack against Large Language Models

In this paper, we present a new form of backdoor attack against Large Language Models LLMs: lingual-backdoor attacks. The key novelty of lingual-backdoor attacks is that the language itself serves as the trigger to hijack the infected LLMs to generate inflammatory speech. They enable the precise...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data v4.8.8 is vulnerable to multiple Base OS issues

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data v4.8.8 is vulnerable to multiple Base OS issues. We have updated the base image used by our Speech Services and the following vulnerabilities have been addressed. Please read the details for remediation below. Vulnerability...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge v4.8.8 is vulnerable to multiple Operator package issues

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge v4.8.8 is vulnerable to multiple Operator package issues. We have performed updates to the Operators used by our Speech Services. The following vulnerabilities have been addressed in this update. Please read the details for remediation below...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge v5.1.2 is vulnerable to a Base OS issue in LibYAML (CVE-2024-35325)

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge v5.1.2 is vulnerable to a Base OS issue in LibYAML , caused by a double-free in the function yamleventdelete of the file /src/libyaml/src/api.c CVE-2024-35325. We have updated the base image used by our Speech Services and the following vulnerability h...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge v5.1.2 is vulnerable to multiple Operator package issues

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge v5.1.2 is vulnerable to multiple Operator package issues.. We have performed updates to the Operators used by our Speech Services. The following vulnerabilities have been addressed in this update. Please read the details for remediation below...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to uninitialized resource use in Linux kernel [CVE-2024-50302]

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to uninitialized resource use in Linux kernel, due to a flaw in the report buffer that could leak kernel memory CVE-2024-50302. Linux kernel is used in our Speech microservices. This vulnerabilitiy has been addressed. Please read the...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to an out-of bounds-write in Linux kernel, [CVE-2024-53197]

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to an out-of bounds-write in Linux kernel, due to a false device tha can provide a bNumConfigurations value that exceeds the initial value used in usbgetconfiguration CVE-2024-53197. Linux kernel is used in our Speech microservices. This...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to an interger overflow in containerd [CVE-2024-40635]

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to an interger overflow in 'containerd', due to a flaw that allows containers launched with UID:GID larger than the maximum 32-bit signed integer,to cause a potential overflow condition CVE-2024-40635. Containerd is included as part of IB...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to a denial of service in olang Parse [CVE-2024-45338]

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to a denial of service in olang Parse, caused by a flaw which allows specially crafted input that may result in extremely slow non-linear parsing CVE-2024-45338. is used in our speech utilities. This vulnerabilitiy has been addressed...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge v4.8.8 is vulnerable to a denial of service in go-git [CVE-2025-21614]

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to a denial of service in go-git, caused by a flaw in in go-git clients that could alow attackers to provide specially crafted responses from a Git server which trigger a resource exhaustion CVE-2025-21614. Go-git is used in our...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge v4.8.8 is vulnerable to an argument injection vulnerability in go-git [CVE-2025-21613]

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to an argument injection vulnerability in go-git, caused by a flaw which may allow an attacker to set arbitrary values to git-upload-pack flags CVE-2025-21613. Go-git is used in our ibm-watson-speech-catalog images. This vulnerabilitiy ha...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge v4.8.8 is vulnerable to an uncontrolled resource consumption in Apache Commons IO [CVE-2024-47554]

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to an uncontrolled resource consumption in Apache Commons IO, due to a flaw in the org.apache.commons.io.input.XmlStreamReader class that may allow maliciously crafted input to excessively consume CPU resources while processing...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge v4.8.8 is vulnerable to a server-side request forgery in logback-core [CVE-2024-12801]

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to a server-side request forgery in logback-core, due to a flaw in SaxEventRecorder by QOS.CH logback, that allows an attacker to forge requests by compromising logback configuration files in XML CVE-2024-12801. Logback-core is used in ou...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge v4.8.8 is vulnerable to an arbitrary code execution in logback-core [CVE-2024-12798]

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to an arbitrary code execution in logback-core, caused by a flaw in the JaninoEventEvaluator extension, that allowsve environment variable injection before program execution CVE-2024-12798. Logback-core is used in our Speech microservices...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge v4.8.8 is vulnerable to a denial of service in VMware Tanzu Spring [CVE-2024-38809]

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to a denial of service in VMware Tanzu Spring, caused by improper input validation CVE-2024-38809. VMware Tanzu Spring is used in our Speech microservices. This vulnerabilitiy has been addressed. Please read the details for remediation...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge v4.8.8 is vulnerable to weak security in VMware Tanzu Spring [CVE-2024-38820]

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to weak security in VMware Tanzu Spring, caused by a flaw related to disallowedFields patterns and case insensitivity in DataBinder CVE-2024-38820. VMware Tanzu Spring is used in our Speech microservices. This vulnerabilitiy has been...