Security Bulletin: A vulnerability with GNU wget affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2016-4971)

Summary

A vulnerability with GNU wget affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2016-4971). Please see below for details on how to remediate this issue.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2016-4971
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU wget could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted HTTP redirect message with an FTP server Location value to download and write or overwrite arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/114406 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Please upgrade to IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data, version 4.0.8. This version can be obtained here:

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=overview-whats-new&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None