Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Published: 2023-07-05

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2022-45061 CVE-2020-10735
CWE-ID	CWE-400 CWE-704
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software	IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data Server applications / Other server solutions
Vendor	IBM Corporation

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU69392

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-45061

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to usage of an unnecessary quadratic algorithm in one path when processing some inputs to the IDNA (RFC 3490) decoder. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted name to he decoder, trigger resource excessive CPU consumption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data: before 4.7.0

CPE2.3

cpe:2.3:a:ibm_corporation:ibm_watson_discovery_for_ibm_cloud_pak_for_data:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7004643

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

2) Type conversion

EUVDB-ID: #VU67760