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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-1720
**DESCRIPTION:**PostgreSQL could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper authorization validation by the ALTER … DEPENDS ON EXTENSION sub-commands. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to drop any function, procedure, materialized view, index, or trigger under certain conditions.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/176286 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.1.3

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None