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Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities in WebSphere Liberty affecting Watson Knowledge Catalog for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

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Summary

WebSphere liberty is vulnerable to a DOS that is impacting Watson Knowledge Catalog for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. This vulnerability has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-35517
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out of memory error when allocating large amounts of memory. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TAR archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress' tar package.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205307 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-36090
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-memory error when large amounts of memory are allocated. By reading a specially-crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress' zip package.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205310 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog on-prem3.5
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog on-prem4.0

Remediation/Fixes

Watson Knowledge Catalog for IBM Cloud Pak for Data 4.0: install Refresh 4 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=overview-whats-new#whats-new__refresh-4

Watson Knowledge Catalog for IBM Cloud Pak for Data 3.5.1: install Refresh 12 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 3.5: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/3.5.0?topic=overview-whats-new#whats-new__refresh-12

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None. WebSphere Liberty must be upgraded.

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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 Jun 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:
22 June 2022

UID

ibm16597611

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