SB2021120334 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in IBM Watson Discovery
Published: December 3, 2021
Security Bulletin ID
SB2021120334
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3749)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the isURLSearchParams function in utils.js. A remote attacker can send specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-ibm-watson-discovery-for-ibm-cloud-pak-for-data-affected-by-vulnerability-in-axios/"
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-ibm-watson-discovery-for-ibm-cloud-pak-for-data-affected-by-vulnerability-in-axios/</a><br>
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6516466<br></p>