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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium External S-TAP is affected by an Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Security Guardium has fixed this vulnerability

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-4184
DESCRIPTION:   IBM Security Guardium performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.
CVSS Base score: 5.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/174802 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Security Guardium11.2

Remediation/Fixes

 ProductVersions Fix
IBM Security Guardium11.2
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Secur…

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Jonathan Fitz-Gerald, John Zuccato, Rodney Ryan, Chris Shepherd, Nathan Roane, Kamil Sarbinowski, Vince Dragnea and Troy Fisher from IBM X-Force Ethical Hacking Team.

Change History

12 Mar 2021: 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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Document Information

Modified date:
17 March 2021

UID

ibm16429569