Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in FasterXML jackson-databind

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of FasterXML jackson-databind.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-24750
**DESCRIPTION:**FasterXML jackson-databind could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe deserialization between gadgets and typing, related to com.pastdev.httpcomponents.configuration.JndiConfiguration. By sending specially-crafted input, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/188470 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.2.0

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None