Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Apache Tika

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Apache Tika.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-30126
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tika is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the StandardsText class in the StandardsExtractingContentHandler. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/226628 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-30973
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tika is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the StandardsText class in the StandardsExtractingContentHandler. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/227638 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-25169
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tika is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation in the BPG parser. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/226627 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.5.0

<https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-install&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None