Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in wget

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of wget (CVE-2018-20483)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2018-20483
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU Wget could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the storing of the origin URL in the user.xdg.origin.url metadata in the set_file_metadata function in xattr.c. By reading the metadata attribute, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/154793 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.8.2
<https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-install&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None