CVE-2022-43904
IBM Guardium Appliance vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

IBM Security Guardium versions 11.3 and 11.4 were found to contain a vulnerability (CVE-2022-43904) that could potentially expose sensitive information to attackers due to improper handling of excessive authentication attempts. The vulnerability was assigned IBM X-Force ID: 240895 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-307 (Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts). According to the CVSS v3.1 scoring, it received a Base Score of 7.5 (HIGH) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges or user interaction, has unchanged scope, and can impact confidentiality but not integrity or availability (NVD).

Impact

The primary impact of this vulnerability is the potential disclosure of sensitive information to attackers. The CVSS scoring indicates high confidentiality impact, while integrity and availability are not affected (NVD).

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