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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-12415
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache POI could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an XML external entity (XXE) error when processing XML data by tool XSSFExportToXml. By sending a specially-crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/170015 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.1.4

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None