Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by path traversal and crypto vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-29425, CVE-2021-39076)

Summary

IBM Security Guardium has fixed these vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-29425
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Commons IO could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by improper input validation by the FileNameUtils.normalize method. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to view arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/199852 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2021-39076
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Security Guardium uses weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms that could allow an attacker to decrypt sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/215585 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None