SB2025090552 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM watsonx.data
Published: September 5, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-6827)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to Gunicorn does not properly validate the value of the 'Transfer-Encoding' header as specified in the RFC standards, which leads to the default fallback method of 'Content-Length,' making it vulnerable to TE.CL request smuggling. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and initiate cache poisoning, data exposure, session manipulation, SSRF, XSS, DoS, data integrity compromise, security bypass, information leakage, and business logic abuse.
2) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-1135)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests when handling Transfer-Encoding headers. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and smuggle arbitrary HTTP headers.
Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to poison HTTP cache and perform phishing attacks.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.