Security Bulletin: IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence in response to a security vulnerability (CVE-2020-4969)

Security Bulletin

Summary

IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence (IGI) in response to security vulnerability. The vulnerability is due to a HTTP Strict-Transport-Security header that is missing on pages where users are not authenticated.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2020-4969
DESCRIPTION: IBM Security Identity Governance Virtual Appliance could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to properly enable HTTP Strict Transport Security. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information using man in the middle techniques.
CVSS Base score: 2.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/192428 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence	5.2.6

Remediation/Fixes

Product Name	VRMF	First Fix
IGI	5.2.6	10.0.0.0-ISS-ISVG-IGVA-FP0000

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

John Zuccato, Rodney Ryan, Chris Shepherd, Nathan Roane, Vince Dragnea, Troy Fisher and Elaheh Samani from IBM X-Force Ethical Hacking Team.

Change History

21 Dec 2020: 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 has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence in response to a security vulnerability (CVE-2020-4969)