Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data ships with versions of FasterXML jackson-databind vulnerable to serialization gadgets.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2019-17531
DESCRIPTION: A Polymorphic Typing issue was discovered in FasterXML jackson-databind 2.0.0 through 2.9.10. When Default Typing is enabled (either globally or for a specific property) for an externally exposed JSON endpoint and the service has the apache-log4j-extra (version 1.2.x) jar in the classpath, and an attacker can provide a JNDI service to access, it is possible to make the service execute a malicious payload.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/169073 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| ICP - Discovery | 2.0.0-2.0.1 |
Remediation/Fixes
Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.1
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQNUZ_2.5.0/cpd/svc/watson/discovery-install.html
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
05 Dec 2019: Initial Publication
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Location
Worldwide
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Document Information
Modified date:
20 December 2019
UID
ibm11126395