Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to Apache Thrift denial of service vulnerability [CVE-2020-13949]

Summary

Potential Apache Thrift denial of service vulnerability [CVE-2020-13949] have been identified that may affect IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. The vulnerability have been addressed. Refer to details for additional information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-13949
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Thrift is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending specially-crafted messages, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a large memory allocation.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196738 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

For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest (v5.0.1 or later releases) release of IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data which maintains backward compatibility with the versions listed above.

Follow instructions for Installing Watson Assistant in Link to Release (v5.0.1 release information)

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.0.x

Workarounds and Mitigations

None