Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in tomcat-embed-websocket-9.0.83.jar

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in tomcat-embed-websocket-9.0.83.jar

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-23672
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an incomplete cleanup flaw. By sending specially crafted WebSocket connections, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to increased resource consumption, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285496 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.8.5

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None