Security Bulletin: A jwt-go vulnerability affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2020-26160)

Summary

A vulnerability in jwt-go affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. Please see below for steps to address this issue.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-26160
**DESCRIPTION:**jwt-go could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a type assertion failure when m[“aud”] happens to be []string{}. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/189408 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Please install IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data, version 4.0.7. This version can be obtained here:

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=overview-whats-new&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None