Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a security restrictions bypass in Kubernetes kube-apiserver [ CVE-2024-3177]

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a security restrictions bypass in Kubernetes kube-apiserver, caused by a flaw when using containers, init containers, and ephemeral containers with the envFrom field populated [CVE-2024-3177]. Kubernetes kube-apiserver is included in the Utilities used by Watson Speech Services. This vulnerabilitiy has been addressed. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-3177
**DESCRIPTION:**Kubernetes kube-apiserver could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw when using containers, init containers, and ephemeral containers with the envFrom field populated. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin.
CVSS Base score: 2.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/287745 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Product(s)|**Version(s)
**|Remediation/Fix/Instructions
—|—|—
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data| 5.0.1| The fix in 5.0.1 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-5.0.0). Version 5.0.1 can be downloaded and installed from: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None