Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in F5 NGINX

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of F5 NGINX .

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-41743
**DESCRIPTION:**F5 NGINX products are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the ngx_http_hls_module module. By using a specially-crafted audio or video file, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to corrupt NGINX worker memory, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238650 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-41741
**DESCRIPTION:**F5 NGINX products are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the ngx_http_mp4_module module. By using a specially-crafted audio or video file, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to corrupt NGINX worker memory, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238648 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.6.5

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None