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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2023-30437
CVE-2023-30437:
IBM Guardium Appliance vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
IBM Security Guardium 11.3, 11.4, and 11.5 could allow an unauthorized user to enumerate usernames by sending a specially crafted HTTP request. The vulnerability was discovered and reported to IBM by Dawid Bakaj & Michał Brzezicki, and was assigned CVE-2023-30437 with IBM X-Force ID: 252293. The issue was publicly disclosed on August 23, 2023 (IBM Advisory).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS Base Score of 5.3 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability can be exploited remotely (Network), requires Low attack complexity, needs No privileges, requires No user interaction, has Unchanged scope, and can impact Confidentiality (Low) while having No impact on Integrity and Availability (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability allows unauthorized users to enumerate usernames on the system through specially crafted HTTP requests. This could potentially provide attackers with valuable information about valid usernames that could be used in further attacks against the system (IBM Advisory).
Mitigation and workarounds
IBM has released security fixes for all affected versions. Customers are encouraged to update their systems promptly with the following patches: For version 11.3: SqlGuard11.0p387Security-Fix, for version 11.4: SqlGuard11.0p475BundleJul-20-2023, and for version 11.5: SqlGuard11.0p530BundleAug-29-2023. No workarounds or alternative mitigations are available (IBM Advisory).
Additional resources
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