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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-9480
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Spark could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by a flaw when authentication is enabled on standalone master. By sending a specially-crafted RPC to the master, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary shell commands on the host machine.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/183858 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

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.1.4

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None