Security Bulletin: IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence in response to a security vulnerability (CVE-2020-4791)

Security Bulletin

Summary

IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence (IGI) in response to security vulnerability. The vulnerability concerns the improper validation of the certificate during signup in IBM Security Access Request apps.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2020-4791
DESCRIPTION: IBM Security Access Manager Appliance could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information using main in the middle attacks due to improper certificate validation.
CVSS Base score: 6.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/189379 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/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, Kamil Sarbinowski, Vince Dragnea, Troy Fisher and Elaheh Samani from IBM X-Force Ethical Hacking Team.

Change History

22 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-2020-4791)