Security Bulletin: CSRF vulnerability in IBM Infosphere Guardium (CVE-2012-3309)

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Security Bulletin: CSRF vulnerability in IBM Infosphere Guardium (CVE-2012-3309)

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**SUMMARY: **Account creation panel is susceptible to cross site request forgery.

VULNERABILITY DETAILS:

CVE ID: CVE-2012-3309

DESCRIPTION:

Account creation panel is susceptible to cross site request forgery allowing for an attacker to create an administrative account.

CVSS:
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: unavailable
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

AFFECTED PLATFORMS:

IBM Infosphere Guardium 8.2 and earlier

REMEDIATION:

Using version 8.2 with CSRF filtering enabled, prevents this exploit. Versions 8.0 and 8.01 are not capable of CSRF filtering. As such, users are encouraged to update to 8.2.
See the version 8.2 release notes for information on enabling CSRF protection.

To confirm the CSRF is enabled in version 8.2, run following command in CLI:
show gui csrf_status

If the result is “Disabled” then execute the following command to enable CSRF filtering:
store gui csrf_status on

Workaround:
If using version 8.2 - enable CSRF filtering as described above

Mitigation:
Avoid using your web browser to open other web sites when accessing the Guardium administration console.

REFERENCES:
· On-line Calculator V2
· X-Force Vulnerability Database
· CVE-2012-3309

RELATED INFORMATION:
· IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
· IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog** **

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
The vulnerability was reported to IBM by Positive Technologies discovered by Positive Research Center (reference number PT-2012-15).

_*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 Flash. _

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