Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to denial of service in Pypa Setuptools (CVE-2022-40897)

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a denial of service in Pypa Setuptools , caused by improper input validation (CVE-2022-40897). The Pypa Setuptools component is included as part of the operators used in the Watson Speech Services offering. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-40897
**DESCRIPTION:**Pypa Setuptools is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending request with a specially crafted regular expression, an remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/243028 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Product(s)|**Version(s)
**|Remediation/Fix/Instructions
—|—|—
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data| 4.6.3| The fix in 4.6.3 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.6.2). Version 4.6.3 can be downloaded and installed from:
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None