Security Bulletin: There are multiple vulnerabilities identified in IBM Guardium Data Encryption (GDE) (CVE-2021-20378, CVE-2021-20416, CVE-2021-20474, CVE-2021-20379)

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities identified in IBM Guardium Data Encryption (GDE). These vulnerabilities have been fixed in GDE 4.0.0.5. Please apply the latest version to obtain the fixes.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-20474
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Security Guardium does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196945 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2021-20378
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Guardium Data Encryption (GDE) does not invalidate session after logout which could allow an authenticated user to impersonate another user on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/195709 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2021-20416
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Guardium Data Encryption (GDE) could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to set the HTTPOnly flag. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information from the cookie.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196218 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2021-20379
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Guardium Data Encryption (GDE) uses weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms that could allow an attacker to decrypt highly sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/195711 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product

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Version

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GDE

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3.0.0.2

GDE

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4.0.0.4

Remediation/Fixes

Listed vulnerabilities (in this security bulletin) are address in below version of IBM Guardium Data Encryption (GDE). Please apply the latest version to obtain the fix.

Product

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Fixed Version

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Link for Fixes

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GDE

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5.0.0.x

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Thales Portal -> My Products -> Guardium Data Encryption Components

https://supportportal.thalesgroup.com/csm?id=kb_article_view&sys_kb_id=9e0cd4bcdb84201080b234523996190f&sysparm_article=KB0023088

Workarounds and Mitigations

Please apply the latest version to obtain the fixes.