Prototype pollution in IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Published: 2023-02-22

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	1
CVE-ID	CVE-2022-46175
CWE-ID	CWE-94
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software Subscribe	IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data Server applications / Other server solutions
Vendor	IBM Corporation

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Prototype pollution

EUVDB-ID: #VU71577

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1:

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-46175

CWE-ID: CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Exploit availability: No

Description

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 within the JSON5.parse() function. A remote attacker can inject and execute arbitrary script code.

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.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data: before 4.6.2

CPE2.3

cpe:2.3:a:ibm_corporation:ibm_watson_assistant_for_ibm_cloud_pak_for_data:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:

External links

http://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6957134

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?