Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by an Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability

Security Bulletin

Summary

IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2020-4193
DESCRIPTION: IBM Security Guardium uses an inadequate account lockout setting that could allow a remote attacker to brute force account credentials.
CVSS Base score: 4.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/174857 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
IBM Security Guardium	10.5
IBM Security Guardium	10.6
IBM Security Guardium	11.0
IBM Security Guardium	11.1

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMF

Remediation / First Fix

IBM Security Guardium

10.5

http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=10.0&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p535_Bundle_Jul-16-2020&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

IBM Security Guardium

10.6

https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=10.0&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p650_Bundle_Jun-01-2020&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

IBM Security Guardium

11.0

http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p30_Bundle_Aug-25-2020&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

IBM Security Guardium

11.1

http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p115_Bundle_May-19-2020&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Jonathan Fitz-Gerald, John Zuccato, Rodney Ryan, Chris Shepherd, Nathan Roane, Kamil Sarbinowski, Vince Dragnea and Troy Fisher from IBM X-Force Ethical Hacking Team.

Change History

02 Jun 2020: Initial Publication
22 Jun 2020: Second Publication
27 July 2020: Third Publication
02 Sept 2020: Third 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.

Disclaimer

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by an Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability