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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in json4j - CVE-2021-3918 (Publicly disclosed vulnerability) impacts IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator

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Summary

Json4j is used IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator. This bulletin provides mitigations for the addressable vulnerability (CVE-2021-3918) by upgrading addressable to latest version.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-3918
DESCRIPTION:   Json-schema could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an improperly controlled modification of object prototype attributes. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/213750 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator2.2.0;2.2.1;2.2.2;2.2.3; 2.3.0;2.3.1;2.3.2;2.3.3;2.3.4;2.3.5

Remediation/Fixes

Affected Product(s)Version(s)Remediation
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator2.2.0;2.2.1;2.2.2;2.2.3To address the vulnerability upgrade to IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator 2.3.1: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/3.5.0?topic=accelerator-upgrading-watson-machine-learning
And then upgrade to 2.3.6 all the way.
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator2.3.0; 2.3.1; 2.3.2; 2.3.3; 2.3.4; 2.3.5To address the vulnerability upgrade to IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator 2.3.6: 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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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

22 Mar 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:
06 April 2022

Initial Publish date:
22 March 2022

UID

ibm16570249

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