Security Bulletin
Summary
Netty is vulnerable to request smuggling, caused by improper validation of request, caused by missing validation of content-length on IBM Watson Machine Learning on CP4D
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2021-21409
DESCRIPTION: Netty is vulnerable to request smuggling, caused by improper validation of request, caused by missing validation of content-length. By sending specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison a web-cache, perform an XSS attack, or obtain sensitive information from request.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/199150 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Watson Machine Learning on CP4D | 2.5,3.0,3.5 |
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
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:
30 July 2021
UID
ibm16469413