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Security Bulletin: Go is vulnerable to a denial of service on IBM Watson Machine Learning on CP4D

Security Bulletin


Summary

Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service and bypass security restrictions on IBM Watson Machine Learning on CP4D

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-15586
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a data race in some net/http servers. By sending specially-crafted HTTP requests, 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/185446 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)

CVEID:   CVE-2020-14039
DESCRIPTION:   Go could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper validation on the VerifyOptions.KeyUsages EKU requirements during the X.509 certificate verification. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain access to the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/185443 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

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Watson Machine Learning on CP4D2.5,3.0

Remediation/Fixes

Fix is available on IBM Watson Machine Learning on CP4D 3.5
Patches are available here : https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/5693732

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

21 Apr 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:
03 May 2021

Initial Publish date:
21 April 2021

UID

ibm16449302

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