Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Apache Log4j

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data ships with versions of Apache Log4j vulnerable to serialization gadgets.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-17571
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper deserialization of untrusted data in SocketServer. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/173314 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.1.1

<https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQNUZ_2.5.0/cpd/svc/watson/discovery-install.html&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None