A vulnerability was found in IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence 4.0 (Policy Management Software). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Cookie Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cookie validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-565. The product relies on the existence or values of cookies when performing security-critical operations, but it does not properly ensure that the setting is valid for the associated user. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence (SonarG) 4.0 does not set the secure attribute for cookies in HTTPS sessions, which could cause the user agent to send those cookies in plaintext over an HTTP session. IBM X-Force ID: 161210.

The weakness was disclosed 10/29/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared at exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-4330 since 01/03/2019. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/29/2024). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Policy Management Software

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• IBM

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• Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence

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• 4.0

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