Security Bulletin
Summary
Potential multiple vulnerabilities in Ansibel Runner has been identified that may affect IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. Refer to details for additional information.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2021-3701
DESCRIPTION: Ansible Runner could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by default temporary files are written to world R/W locations. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read private information or force ansible-runner to write files as the legitimate user in an unintended place.
CVSS Base score: 6.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222680 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2021-3702
DESCRIPTION: Ansible Runner could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a race condition. By substituting a temporary directory for another directory during file operations, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access private_data_dir.
CVSS Base score: 6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222681 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2021-4041
DESCRIPTION: Ansible Runner could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper shell escaping of the shell command. By sending a specially-crafted request using the ansible_runner.interface.run_command, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the host system.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/234439 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2022-3697
DESCRIPTION: Ansible Collections Amazon AWS Collection could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when using the tower_callback parameter from the amazon.aws.ec2_instance module. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain password information from the log file, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241191 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data | 1.5.0, 4.0.0, 4.0.2, 4.0.4, 4.0.5, 4.0.6, 4.0.7, 4.0.8, 4.5.1, 4.5.3, 4.6 |
Remediation/Fixes
For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest (v4.7.0 or later releases) release of IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data which maintains backward compatibility with the versions listed above.
| Product Latest Version | Remediation/Fix/Instructions |
| IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data 4.7.0 |
Follow instructions for Installing Watson Assistant in Link to Release (v4.7.0 release information) |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
05 Jul 2023: 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
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Document Information
Modified date:
05 July 2023
Initial Publish date:
05 July 2023
UID
ibm17009887