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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2016-1000027
**DESCRIPTION:**Pivota Spring Framework could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe deserialization flaw in the library. By sending specially-crafted input, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/174367 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly suggests upgrading to IBM Watson Discovery 4.6.5

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None