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Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output in Git [CVE-2024-52005]

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output in Git, due to a failure to protect against standard error output in ANSI escape sequences [CVE-2024-52005]. Git is used in our speech service runtimes. This vulnerabilitiy has been addressed. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2024-52005
DESCRIPTION:   Git is a source code management tool. When cloning from a server (or fetching, or pushing), informational or error messages are transported from the remote Git process to the client via the so-called "sideband channel". These messages will be prefixed with "remote:" and printed directly to the standard error output. Typically, this standard error output is connected to a terminal that understands ANSI escape sequences, which Git did not protect against. Most modern terminals support control sequences that can be used by a malicious actor to hide and misrepresent information, or to mislead the user into executing untrusted scripts. As requested on the git-security mailing list, the patches are under discussion on the public mailing list. Users are advised to update as soon as possible. Users unable to upgrade should avoid recursive clones unless they are from trusted sources.
CWE:   CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
CVSS Source:   security-advisories@github.com
CVSS Base score:   7.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge 4.0.0 - 5.2.0

 

Remediation/Fixes

Product(s)Version(s)Remediation/Fix/Instructions
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge5.2.1The fix in 5.2.1 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-5.2.0). Version 5.2.1 can be downloaded and installed from: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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Acknowledgement

Change History

28 Aug 2025: Initial Publication

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
28 August 2025

UID

ibm17243413