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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in addressable - CVE-2021-32740 impacts IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator

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Summary

Addressable is used IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator. This bulletin provides mitigations for the addressable vulnerability (CVE-2021-32740) by upgrading addressable to latest version.

Vulnerability Details

Refer to the security bulletin(s) listed in the Remediation/Fixes section

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator2.2.0;2.2.1
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator2.3.0;2.3.1;2.3.2;2.3.3;2.3.4

Remediation/Fixes

Affected Product(s)Version(s)Remediation
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator2.2.0;2.2.1To address the vulnerability upgrade to IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator 2.2.2: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/3.5.0?topic=accelerator-upgrading-watson-machine-learning
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator2.3.0; 2.3.1; 2.3.2; 2.3.3; 2.3.4To address the vulnerability upgrade to IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator 2.3.5: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/wmla/2.3?topic=installation-install-upgrade
 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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CVEID: CVE-2021-32740

Description: Addressable is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the URI template implementation. By sending a specially-crafted template, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available resources.

Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

07 Jan 2022: 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:
10 January 2022

Initial Publish date:
07 January 2022

UID

ibm16539418

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