SB2026052516 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge
Published: May 25, 2026
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.
1) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-30922)
CWE-ID: CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
CVSSv4: 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
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion in the pyasn1 BER decoder when decoding deeply nested ASN.1 data with indefinite-length constructed types. A remote attacker can supply a specially crafted payload containing nested SEQUENCE or SET tags to cause a denial of service.
Services that parse untrusted ASN.1 data may terminate with a RecursionError or exhaust available memory.
2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-23490)
CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
CVSSv4: 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
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 when handling RELATIVE-OID with excessive continuation octets. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.