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

2022-10-1322:19:59

www.ibm.com

ibm watson discovery

ibm cloud pak for data

apache xalan

cve-2022-34169

vulnerability

upgrade

4.5.3

security bulletin

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

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

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

53.3%

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Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Apache Xalan.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-34169
**DESCRIPTION:**The Apache Xalan Java XSLT library could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer truncation issue when processing malicious XSLT stylesheets. By using specially crafted XSLT stylesheets, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/231488 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
Watson Discovery	4.0.0-4.5.1

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.5.3

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

ibmwatson_discoveryMatch4.0.0

ibmwatson_discoveryMatch4.5.1

VendorProductVersionCPE
ibmwatson_discovery4.0.0cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watson_discovery:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibmwatson_discovery4.5.1cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watson_discovery:4.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*