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

Security Bulletin


Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-8908
DESCRIPTION:   Guava could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a temp directory creation vulnerability in com.google.common.io.Files.createTempDir(). By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/192996 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
ICP - Discovery2.0.0-2.2.0

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.2.1

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-install

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

08 Feb 2021: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
26 February 2021

Initial Publish date:
08 February 2021

UID

ibm16416147