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Security Bulletin: Java Spring vulnerability impacts IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog in Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2022-22965)

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog in Cloud Pak for Data is potentially vulnerable to arbitrary code execution due to Java Spring data binding vulnerability (CVE-2022-22965).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2022-22965
DESCRIPTION:   Spring Framework could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the improper handling of PropertyDescriptor objects used with data binding. By sending specially-crafted data to a Spring Java application, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system. Note: The exploit requires Spring Framework to be run on Tomcat as a WAR deployment with JDK 9 or higher using spring-webmvc or spring-webflux. Note: This vulnerability is also known as Spring4Shell or SpringShell.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/223103 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 Knowledge Catalog on-prem3.5.1
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog on-prem4.0

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading.

Install Watson Knowledge Catalog 4.0.8 (Refresh 8) or above: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=new-watson-knowledge-catalog

Install Watson Knowledge Catalog 3.5.10 (Refresh 13) or above: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/3.5.0?topic=new-watson-knowledge-catalog 

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

02 May 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 May 2022

Initial Publish date:
02 May 2022

UID

ibm16583465

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