SB2025051645 - IBM watsonx Assistant Cartridge and IBM watsonx Orchestrate with watsonx Assistant Cartridge update for scikit-learn



SB2025051645 - IBM watsonx Assistant Cartridge and IBM watsonx Orchestrate with watsonx Assistant Cartridge update for scikit-learn

Published: May 16, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2025051645
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Local access
Highest impact Information disclosure

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Cleartext storage of sensitive information (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-5206)

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in TfidfVectorizer, which includes sensitive information such as tokens into the training data set. A local user can run the application with the default arguments except that we limit the vocabulary size and gain access to sensitive information.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.