SB2022080515 - Cross-site scripting in IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
Published: August 5, 2022
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-11022)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the regex operation in "jQuery.htmlPrefilter". A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application that uses .html()</code>, <code>.append() or similar methods for it and execute arbitrary JavaScript code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-ibm-watson-speech-services-cartridge-for-ibm-cloud-pak-for-data-is-vulnerable-to-cross-site-scripting-in-jquery-cve-2020-11022/"
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-ibm-watson-speech-services-cartridge-for-ibm-cloud-pak-for-data-is-vulnerable-to-cross-site-scripting-in-jquery-cve-2020-11022/</a><br><a
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6610363"
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6610363</a><br><br><br></p>