IBM Security Identity Governance/Intelligence 5.2.6 information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence 5.2.6. It has been classified as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-4233. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence 5.2.6 (Access Management Software). This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence 5.2.6 could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to set the secure flag for the session cookie in SSL mode. By intercepting its transmission within an HTTP session, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to capture the cookie and obtain sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 175360.

The weakness was disclosed 05/28/2020 (Website). The advisory is shared at exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-4233 since 12/30/2019. 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 $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/30/2020). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

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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• Access Management Software

Vendor

• IBM

Name

• Intelligence
• Security Identity Governance

Version

• 5.2.6

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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