Security Bulletin: IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence in response to a security vulnerability (CVE-2020-4966)

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 fact that the cookies set by the IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence application are missing the SameSite attribute.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2020-4966
DESCRIPTION: IBM Security Identity Governance Virtual Appliance does not set the secure attribute on authorization tokens or session cookies. Attackers may be able to get the cookie values by sending a http:// link to a user or by planting this link in a site the user goes to. The cookie will be sent to the insecure link and the attacker can then obtain the cookie value by snooping the traffic.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/192423 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/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, Vince Dragnea, Troy Fisher and Elaheh Samani from IBM X-Force Ethical Hacking Team.

Change History

21 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-2020-4966)