Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to systemd denial of service and information disclosure vulnerabilities( CVE-2022-3821, CVE-2022-4415)

Summary

Potential systemd denial of service and information disclosure vulnerabilities( CVE-2022-3821, CVE-2022-4415) has been identified that may affect IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. Refer to details for additional information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-3821
**DESCRIPTION:**systemd is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an off-by-one error in format_timespan() function of time-util.c. By sending specific values for time and accuracy, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241051 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-4415
**DESCRIPTION:**systemd could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by not respecting fs.suid_dumpable kernel setting in the systemd-coredump. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/242796 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest (v4.7.0 or later releases) release of IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data which maintains backward compatibility with the versions listed above.

Follow instructions for Installing Watson Assistant in Link to Release (v4.7.0 release information)

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.7.x&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None