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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-41496
**DESCRIPTION:**NumPy is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a buffer overflow in the array_from_pyobj function of fortranobject.c. By constantly creating sort arrays, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/215807 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2021-41495
**DESCRIPTION:**NumPy is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a null pointer dereference in numpy.sort and the PyArray_DescrNew function. By constantly creating sort arrays, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/215808 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.0.7

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.2.1 and apply cpd-watson-discovery-2.2.1-patch-9

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

<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/available-patches-watson-discovery-ibm-cloud-pak-data&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None