Security Bulletin: IBM Netezza for Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to injection attack due to urllib package in Python3 (CVE-2022-0391)

Summary

IBM Netezza for Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to injection attack due to improper input validation by the urllib.parse module from Python3. Vulnerability is addressed by upgrading Pytthon to version 3.9.7.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-0391
**DESCRIPTION:**Python could provide weaker than expected security, cause by a improper input validation by the urllib.parse module. By sending a specially-crafted request using \r and \n characters in the URL path. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform injection attack or launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/219613 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

**IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now for affected versions listed by applying the fix.**​

Workarounds and Mitigations

None