Security Bulletin: IBM Security Verify Governance is vulnerable to SQL injection due to use of Hibernate ORM (CVE-2020-25638)

Summary

IBM Security Verify Governance uses Hibernate ORM which is vulnerable to SQL injection, caused by misconfiguration for hibernate.use_sql_comments. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements to manipulate data in the back-end database(CVE-2020-25638). The affected jar was removed as it is no longer used by the product.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-25638
**DESCRIPTION:**Hibernate ORM is vulnerable to SQL injection, caused by misconfiguration for hibernate.use_sql_comments. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/192057 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2019-14900
**DESCRIPTION:**Hibernate ORM is vulnerable to SQL injection. The implementation of the JPA Criteria API can permit unsanitized literals when a literal is used in the SELECT or GROUP BY parts of the query. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/185743 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Affected Product(s) |

Version(s)

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First Fix

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IBM Security Verify Governance

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10.0.1

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10.0.1.0-ISS-ISVG-IGVA-FP0002

Workarounds and Mitigations

None