SB2025121934 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge
Published: December 19, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-9230)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when trying to decrypt CMS messages encrypted using password based encryption. A remote attacker can trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that password based (PWRI) encryption support in CMS messages is enabled.
2) Covert Timing Channel (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-9231)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to timing side-channel in SM2 signature computations on 64 bit ARM platforms. A remote attacker can recover the private key and decrypt data.
3) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-56433)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to shadow-utils establishes a default /etc/subuid behavior (e.g., uid 100000 through 165535 for the first user account) that can realistically conflict with the uids of users defined on locally administered networks, potentially leading to account takeover by leveraging newuidmap for access to an NFS home directory (or same-host resources in the case of remote logins by these local network users).
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.