SB2022061301 - MitM attack in Watson Knowledge Catalog for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
Published: June 13, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022061301
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-35550)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to the JSSE component in Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition offers cipher suites in the wrong way, which causes weaker cipher suites to be offered ahead of the strong ones. A remote non-authenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain access to sensitive information.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.