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

2023-09-2721:12:22

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ibm

watson discovery cartridge

cloud pak for data

vulnerability

grpc

denial of service

upgrade

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

32.9%

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Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-33953
**DESCRIPTION:**gRPC is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by hpack table accounting errors. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/263382 for the current score.
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

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
Watson Discovery	4.0.0-4.7.1

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.7.3

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

ibmwatson_discoveryMatch4.0.0

ibmwatson_discoveryMatch4.7.1

VendorProductVersionCPE
ibmwatson_discovery4.0.0cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watson_discovery:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibmwatson_discovery4.7.1cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watson_discovery:4.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*