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Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in Spring Framework affects IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator

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Summary

A vulnerability exists in Spring Framework version used by IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator. Spring framework upgrade to version 5.2.15 which resolves these vulnerabilities, is available on IBM Fix Central.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-22118
DESCRIPTION:   VMware Tanzu Spring Framework could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a flaw in the WebFlux application. By sending a specially-crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges to read or modify files in the WebFlux application, or overwrite arbitrary files with multipart request data.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/202705 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator 2.2.x, 2.3.0, 2.3.1

Remediation/Fixes

For 2.x.x versions, the fixes are in IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator 2.3.2. Please reference the upgrade section in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/3.5.0?topic=accelerator-upgrading-watson-machine-learning

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

Acknowledgement

Change History

08 Oct 2021: Initial Publication
15 Oct 2021: Update the Product info on the right side

*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:
18 October 2021

Initial Publish date:
08 October 2021

UID

ibm16497275

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