Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation with Spring Framework (CVE-2022-22950).

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation in VMware Tanzu Spring Framework (CVE-2022-22950). This appears in the Java code used by some of our service components. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-22950
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Spring Framework is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending a specially-crafted crafted SpEL expression, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/223096 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Product(s)|**Version(s)
**|Remediation/Fix/Instructions
—|—|—
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data|4.0.9|**The fix in 4.0.9 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.0.8). Version 4.0.9 can be downloaded and installed from:
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=planning-operator-operand-versions&gt;
**

Workarounds and Mitigations

None