Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Node.js

Security Bulletin

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains vulnerable versions of Node.js modules used in Web clients.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2021-42581
DESCRIPTION: Ramda could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a prototype pollution in the mapObjIndexed function. By supplying a specially-crafted object using the __proto__ argument, 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/226072 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)

IBM X-Force ID: 221916
DESCRIPTION: Node.js yup module, could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a prototype pollution in the .SetLocale function. 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/221916 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)
Watson Discovery	4.0.0-4.0.9

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.5.0

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-install

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

08 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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Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Node.js