Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to phishing attacks in Apache Tomcat [CVE-2023-41080]

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to phishing attacks in Apache Tomcat, caused by an open redirect vulnerability in the FORM authentication feature [CVE-2023-41080]. Apache Tomcat is used as a component of our Speech microservices. This vulnerabilitiy has been addressed. Please read the details for remediation below

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-41080
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks, caused by an open redirect vulnerability in the FORM authentication feature. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted URL to redirect a victim to arbitrary Web sites.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/264483 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading.

Product(s)|**Version(s)
**|Remediation/Fix/Instructions
—|—|—
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data| 4.8.2| The fix in 4.8.2 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.8.1). Version 4.8.2 can be downloaded and installed from: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None