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

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Apache Thrift.

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

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.2.1 and apply 2.2.1 patch-1

<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