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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by a PolicyKit vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034)

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Summary

IBM Security Guardium has fixed this vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-4034
DESCRIPTION:   Polkit could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by incorrect handling of the argument vectors in the pkexec utility. By crafting environment variables in a specific way, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute commands with root privileges.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/218087 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Security Guardium10.5
IBM Security Guardium10.6
IBM Security Guardium11.0
IBM Security Guardium11.1
IBM Security Guardium11.2
IBM Security Guardium11.3
IBM Security Guardium11.4

Remediation/Fixes

IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly.

 ProductVersion Fix
IBM Security Guardium10.5http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=10.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p550_Bundle_Mar-27-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium10.6http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=10.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p694_Bundle_Aug-11-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium11.0http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p45_Bundle_May-03-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium11.1http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard-11.0p165_Bundle_Sep_01_2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium11.2http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p277_Bundle_Oct-26-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium11.3http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p360_Bundle_Mar-24-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium11.4http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p430_Bundle_Apr-28-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

 

   

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

18 Apr 2022: Initial Publication
12 May 2022: Second Publication
20 Sep 2022: Third 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:
08 November 2022

Initial Publish date:
18 April 2022

UID

ibm16572981