Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Node.js braces

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Node.js braces

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-4068
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js braces module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to limit the number of characters it can handle. leading to a memory exhaustion in lib/parse.js. By sending imbalanced braces as input, the parsing will enter a loop causing the JavaScript heap limit to be reached, and the program will crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/290675 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 5.0.1

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None