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HistoryMar 28, 2024 - 11:54 a.m.

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in pypdf2-3.0.1-py3-none-any.whl

2024-03-2811:54:49

www.ibm.com

ibm watson discovery

cloud pak for data

pypdf2-3.0.1-py3-none-any.whl

vulnerability

denial of service

upgrade

ibm cloud

cve-2023-36464

CVSS3

6.2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

6.5

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

19.3%

JSON

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of pypdf2-3.0.1-py3-none-any.whl

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-36464
**DESCRIPTION:**py-pdf pypdfis vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop if __parse_content_stream is executed. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume available CPU resource, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/259148 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
Watson Discovery	4.0.0-4.8.3

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.8.4

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

ibmwatson_discoveryMatch4.0.0

ibmwatson_discoveryMatch4.8.3

VendorProductVersionCPE
ibmwatson_discovery4.0.0cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watson_discovery:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibmwatson_discovery4.8.3cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watson_discovery:4.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*