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Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge v4.8.8 is vulnerable to a security information disclosure in VMware Tanzu Spring [CVE-2024-38819]

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to a security information disclosure in VMware Tanzu Spring, due to path traversal exposures through the functional web framework: WebMvc.fn or WebFlux.fn [CVE-2024-38819]. VMware Tanzu Spring is used in our Speech microservices. This vulnerabilitiy has been addressed. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2024-38819
DESCRIPTION:   Applications serving static resources through the functional web frameworks WebMvc.fn or WebFlux.fn are vulnerable to path traversal attacks. An attacker can craft malicious HTTP requests and obtain any file on the file system that is also accessible to the process in which the Spring application is running.
CWE:   CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVSS Source:   security@vmware.com
CVSS Base score:   7.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/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 Speech Services Cartridge 4.0.0 - 4.8.8

 

Remediation/Fixes

Product(s)Version(s)Remediation/Fix/Instructions
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge4.8.9The fix in 4.8.9 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.8.8). Version 4.8.9 can be downloaded and installed from: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

01 May 2025: Initial Publication

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
01 May 2025

UID

ibm17232301