Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM watsonx.ai on Cloud Pak for Data internally uses go-redis (CVE-2025-29923)
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2025-29923
DESCRIPTION: go-redis is the official Redis client library for the Go programming language. Prior to 9.5.5, 9.6.3, and 9.7.3, go-redis potentially responds out of order when `CLIENT SETINFO` times out during connection establishment. This can happen when the client is configured to transmit its identity, there are network connectivity issues, or the client was configured with aggressive timeouts. The problem occurs for multiple use cases. For sticky connections, you receive persistent out-of-order responses for the lifetime of the connection. All commands in the pipeline receive incorrect responses. When used with the default ConnPool once a connection is returned after use with ConnPool#Put the read buffer will be checked and the connection will be marked as bad due to the unread data. This means that at most one out-of-order response before the connection is discarded. This issue is fixed in 9.5.5, 9.6.3, and 9.7.3. You can prevent the vulnerability by setting the flag DisableIndentity to true when constructing the client instance.
CWE: CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
CVSS Source: security-advisories@github.com
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| watsonx.ai on Cloud Pak for Data | 4.8.0 to 5.2.2 |
Remediation/Fixes
IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to version 5.3.0 refer to https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.3.x?topic=data-whats-new
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
16 Jan 2026: Initial Publication
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Document Information
Modified date:
16 January 2026
Initial Publish date:
16 January 2026
UID
ibm17257221