IBM Watson Query on Cloud Pak for Data up to 4.8.7 privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in IBM Watson Query on Cloud Pak for Data up to 4.0.9/4.5.3/4.6.6/4.7.4/4.8.7. It has been classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. This manipulation causes privileges management. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-22341. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in IBM Watson Query on Cloud Pak for Data up to 4.0.9/4.5.3/4.6.6/4.7.4/4.8.7. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

IBM Watson Query on Cloud Pak for Data 4.0.0 through 4.0.9, 4.5.0 through 4.5.3, 4.6.0 through 4.6.6, 4.7.0 through 4.7.4, and 4.8.0 through 4.8.7 could allow unauthorized data access from a remote data source object due to improper privilege management.

It is possible to read the advisory at ibm.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-22341 since 01/09/2024. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/29/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2024-19902). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Cloud Software

Vendor

• IBM

Name

• Watson Query on Cloud Pak for Data

Version

• 4.0.0
• 4.0.1
• 4.0.2
• 4.0.3
• 4.0.4
• 4.0.5
• 4.0.6
• 4.0.7
• 4.0.8
• 4.0.9
• 4.5.0
• 4.5.1
• 4.5.2
• 4.5.3
• 4.6.0
• 4.6.1
• 4.6.2
• 4.6.3
• 4.6.4
• 4.6.5
• 4.6.6
• 4.7.0
• 4.7.1
• 4.7.2
• 4.7.3
• 4.7.4
• 4.8.0
• 4.8.1
• 4.8.2
• 4.8.3
• 4.8.4
• 4.8.5
• 4.8.6
• 4.8.7

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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