Security Bulletin
Summary
Watson Machine Learning Accelerator is affected but not classified as vulnerable to a remote code execution in Spring Framework (CVE-2022-22971) as it does not meet all of the following criteria: 1. JDK 9 or higher, 2. Apache Tomcat as the Servlet container, 3. Packaged as WAR (in contrast to a Spring Boot executable jar), 4. Spring-webmvc or spring-webflux dependency, 5. Spring Framework versions 5.3.0 to 5.3.17, 5.2.0 to 5.2.19, and older versions. WMLA uses spring framework to manage java application's dependency injection, events, resources, i18n, validation, data binding, type conversion, SpEL, AOP. The fix includes Spring 5.3.20.
Vulnerability Details
Refer to the security bulletin(s) listed in the Remediation/Fixes section
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| Watson Machine Learning Accelerator on Cloud Pak for Data | 2.2.x; 2.3.x |
Remediation/Fixes
1. For Watson Machine Learning Accelerator version 2.2.x
To address the affected version, upgrade to IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator 2.2.5 by following the document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/3.5.0?topic=accelerator-upgrading-watson-machine-learning
2. For Watson Machine Learning Accelerator version 2.3.x
To address the affected version, upgrade to IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator 2.3.5 by following the document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/wmla/2.3?topic=installation-install-upgrade
Then follow https://ibmdocs-test.mybluemix.net/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.5.x?topic=accelerator-upgrading to upgrade from WMLA 2.3.5 to WMLA 2.4.0
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
CVEID: CVE-2022-22971
DESCRIPTION: Vmware Tanzu Spring Framework is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw with a STOMP over WebSocket endpoint. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Change History
12 Jul 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:
12 July 2022
Initial Publish date:
12 July 2022
UID
ibm16603321