Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Google Protocol Buffers

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Google Protocol Buffers.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-22569
**DESCRIPTION:**Google Protocol Buffer (protobuf-java) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an issue with allow interleaving of com.google.protobuf.UnknownFieldSet fields. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a timeout in ProtobufFuzzer function, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216851 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.0.8

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.2.1 and apply cpd-watson-discovery-2.2.1-patch-10

<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