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Security Bulletin: Netty Vulnerability Affects IBM Watson Machine Learning on CP4D ( CVE-2021-21290)

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Summary

Netty could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an insecure temp file in Unix-like systems on IBM Watson Machine Learning on CP4D

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-21290
DESCRIPTION:   Netty could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an insecure temp file in Unix-like systems. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197110 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Watson Machine Learning on CP4D2.5,3.0,3.5

Remediation/Fixes

Fix is available on IBM Watson Machine Learning on CP4D 4.0
See : https://www.ibm.com/support/producthub/icpdata/docs/content/SSQNUZ_latest/cpd/overview/whats-new.html#whats-new

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

01 Jul 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:
15 July 2021

Initial Publish date:
01 July 2021

UID

ibm16469411