Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling in Apache Tomcat (CVE-2022-42252).

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling in Apache Tomcat caused by the failure to reject a request containing an invalid Content-Length header when configured to ignore invalid HTTP headers via setting rejectIllegalHeader to false. (CVE-2022-42252). Apache Tomcat is included as part of our speech microservice images. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-42252
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by the failure to reject a request containing an invalid Content-Length header when configured to ignore invalid HTTP headers via setting rejectIllegalHeader to false. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 4.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239171 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly 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| 4.6.4| The fix in 4.6.5 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.6.4). Version 4.6.5 can be downloaded and installed from: **
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=installing&gt;
**

Workarounds and Mitigations

None