Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to injection attacks in Ansible (CVE-2021-3583).

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to attacks in Ansible, caused by template injection in the user’s controller (CVE-2021-3583). Attackers could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system. Ansible is included in some of the operators used in IBM Watson Speech. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-3583
**DESCRIPTION:**Ansible could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by template injection in user’s controller. By sending a specially-crafted template, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/209925 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM 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| 4.5.1| The fix in 4.5.1 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.5.0). Version 4.5.1 can be downloaded and installed from:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.5.x?topic=installing

Workarounds and Mitigations

None