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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by a PostgreSQL vulnerability (CVE-2022-1552)

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Summary

IBM Security Guardium has fixed this vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2022-1552
DESCRIPTION:   PostgreSQL remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an issue with not activate protection or too late with the Autovacuum, REINDEX, CREATE INDEX, REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW, CLUSTER, and pg_amcheck commands. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary SQL functions under a superuser identity.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/226521 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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 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.

 
 ProductVersions Fix
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_11.0p51_Bundle_Sep-27-2022&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_11.0p375_Bundle_Oct-19-2022&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-11.0p450_Bundle_Sep_01_2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

Change History

11 Oct 2022: Initial Publication
01 Nov 2022: Second 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:
11 October 2022

UID

ibm16828557

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