SB2024090620 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak
Published: September 6, 2024 Updated: October 25, 2024
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-31418)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote non-authenticated attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests to the application, cause an OutOfMemory error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-46673)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input within the Simulate Pipeline API. A remote user can pass malformed scripts to the script processor of an Ingest Pipeline and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
3) Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Log Files (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-31417)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to software can include sensitive information into audit logs log files when using certain deprecated URIs for APIs. A local user with access to the application's log can obtain potentially sensitive information, such as passwords and tokens in clear text.
Note that audit logging is disabled by default and needs to be explicitly enabled.
4) Stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-31419)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the _search API. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger a stack buffer overflow and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.