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

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Go

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-24785
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw in the MarshalJSON methods in the html/template package. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject unexpected content into templates.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285305 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-45289
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when following an HTTP redirect to a domain which is not a subdomain match or exact match of the initial domain. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive headers information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285338 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2024-24783
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the crypto/x509 package when verifying a certificate chain. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause Certificate.Verify to panic, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285303 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)

CVEID:CVE-2023-45290
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when parsing a multipart form in the net/textproto package. By sending a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to allocate arbitrarily large amounts of memory, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285339 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2024-24784
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the crypto/x509 package when verifying a certificate chain. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause Certificate.Verify to panic, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285304 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-45288
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory exhaustion flaw due to flood of CONTINUATION frames in the HTTP/2 protocol stack in the net/http and x/net/http2 packages. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/286962 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 4.8.6/5.0.0 and <https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-install&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None