Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a security restrictions bypass in Apache Tomcat (CVE-2022-45143).

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a security restrictions bypass in Apache Tomcat caused by the JsonErrorReportValve function not escaping the type, message or description values (CVE-2022-45143). Apache Tomcat is included as part of our speech microservice images. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-45143
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by not escape the type, message or description values in the JsonErrorReportValve function. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to supply values that invalidated or manipulated the JSON output.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/243565 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading.

Product(s)|**Version(s)
|Remediation/Fix/Instructions
—|—|—
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data| 4.6.5| The fix in 4.6.5 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.6.4). Version 4.6.5 can be downloaded and installed from: **
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=installing&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None