Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Perl affects IBM watsonx.data

Summary

Perl could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper handling of property name by the S_parse_uniprop_string function in regcomp.c. This can affect IBM watsonx.data.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-47100
**DESCRIPTION:**Perl could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper handling of property name by the S_parse_uniprop_string function in regcomp.c. By using a specially crafted regular expression input, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to write to unallocated space.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/272992 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

The product needs to be installed or upgraded to the latest available level watsonx.data 2.0.2 or watsonx.data on CPD 5.0.2. Installation/upgrade instructions can be found here: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/watsonxdata/2.0.x?topic=deployment-installing&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None