Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in NumPy

Security Bulletin

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of NumPy.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2021-41496
DESCRIPTION: NumPy is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a buffer overflow in the array_from_pyobj function of fortranobject.c. By constantly creating sort arrays, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/215807 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2021-41495
DESCRIPTION: NumPy is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a null pointer dereference in numpy.sort and the PyArray_DescrNew function. By constantly creating sort arrays, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/215808 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
Watson Discovery	4.0.0-4.0.6
Watson Discovery	2.0.0-2.2.1

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.0.7

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.2.1 and apply cpd-watson-discovery-2.2.1-patch-9

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-install

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/available-patches-watson-discovery-ibm-cloud-pak-data

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

17 Mar 2022: 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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Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in NumPy