A vulnerability was found in NetIQ Identity Manager up to 4.6. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Driver Log File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a log file vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-532. Information written to log files can be of a sensitive nature and give valuable guidance to an attacker or expose sensitive user information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

The NetIQ Identity Manager driver log file, in versions prior to 4.7, provides details that could aid in system or configuration enumeration.

The bug was discovered 03/05/2018. The weakness was presented 03/26/2018 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at netiq.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-1349 since 12/10/2017. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 21 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 4.7 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 103531†).

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• NetIQ

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• Identity Manager

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• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• 4.4
• 4.5
• 4.6

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• commercial

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