Security Bulletin: Vulnerability affects Watson Explorer Foundational Components (CVE-2018-15756)

Summary

Security vulnerability affects IBM Watson Explorer Foundational Components.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-15756 DESCRIPTION: Pivotal Spring Framework is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper handling of range request by the ResourceHttpRequestHandler. By adding a range header with a high number of ranges, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151641&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

The vulnerability applies to the following product and version:

• Watson Explorer Foundational Components versions 12.0.0, 12.0.1, 12.0.2.0 - 12.0.2.2
• Watson Explorer Foundational Components versions 11.0.2.0 - 11.0.2.4

Remediation/Fixes

Follow these steps to upgrade to the required version of Spring Framework.

The table reflects product names at the time the specified versions were released. To use the links to Fix Central in this table, you must first log in to the IBM Support: Fix Central site at <http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;.

Upgrade to Version 12.0.3.

See Watson Explorer Version 12.0.3 Foundational Components for download information and instructions.

IBM Watson Explorer
Foundational Components |

11.0.2.0 - 11.0.2.4

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Upgrade to Version 11.0.2.5.

See Watson Explorer Version 11.0.2.5 Foundational Components for download information and instructions.