Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to Elastic Elasticsearch denial of service [ CVE-2024-23450]

Summary

Potential Elastic Elasticsearch denial of service [ CVE-2024-23450] have been identified that may affect IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. The vulnerability have been addressed. Refer to details for additional information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-23450
**DESCRIPTION:**Elastic Elasticsearch is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when processing a document in a deeply nested pipeline on an ingest node. By sending a specially crafted document, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an uncontrolled resource consumption, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 4.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/286949 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest (v5.0.1 or later releases) release of IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data which maintains backward compatibility with the versions listed above.

Follow instructions for Installing Watson Assistant in Link to Release (v5.0.1 release information)

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.0.x

Workarounds and Mitigations

None