Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in Golang Go affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2021-29923)

Summary

A vulnerability in Golang Go before 1.17 affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. (CVE-2021-29923) Please see below for details on how to remediate this issue.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-29923
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper consideration for extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address octet. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access control based on IP addresses.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/207025 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Please install IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data, version 4.0.7. This version is available here:

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=overview-whats-new&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None