Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a denial of service in NumPy. (CVE-2021-33430).

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a denial of service in NumPy. (CVE-2021-33430). This appears in the Python code used by some of our service components. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-33430
**DESCRIPTION:**NumPy is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a buffer overflow in PyArray_NewFromDescr_int of ctors.c. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/215945 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Product(s)|**Version(s)
**|Remediation/Fix/Instructions
—|—|—
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data|4.0.9|**The fix in 4.0.9 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.0.8). Version 4.0.9 can be downloaded and installed from:
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=installing-cloud-pak-data&gt;
**

Workarounds and Mitigations

None