IBM Security Verify Governance Code Issue Vulnerability

IBM Security Verify Governance is an intelligent identity access platform from International Business Machines IBM, Inc. provides organizations with a platform to analyze, define and control user access and access risk. A code issue vulnerability exists in IBM Security Verify Governance version...

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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Verify Governance - Identity Manager (Virtual Appliance) is affected by multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-35903, CVE-2023-35018, CVE-2023-35013, X-Force ID 220945)

Summary IBM Security Verify Governance - Identity Manager Virtual Appliance is vulnerable to arbitrary file upload, escalation of privileges, and sensitive information leak. These issues have been addressed in this update. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2023-35903 DESCRIPTION: IBM Security Verif...

Missing validation lets users delegate more than they own.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The amounts array is not checked to ensure the sum is less than or equal to the user's overall token balance. This could allow someone to delegate more tokens than they own. Proof of Concept This is another validation issue in the delegateMulti function...

Hash Collisions and Front-Running Risk

Lines of code Vulnerability details Salt Value in Proxy Deployment: The contract uses a salt value of 0 during the deployment of proxy delegator contracts. This introduces a significant security concern related to potential hash collisions. If multiple delegators attempt to deploy to the same...

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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Verify Governance is affected by multiple vulnerabilities

Summary IBM Security Verify Governance uses various components, such as IBM Java, and Dojo. Security vulnerabilities in multiple components have been addressed in the IBM Security Verify Governance update. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2021-22569 DESCRIPTION: Google Protocol Buffer protobuf-jav...

Access control check in the setAmbRewards and setAmbRewards functions is missing

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Any user can call the setAmbRewards and setAmbRewards functions and set their values for weeklyReward, which opens up many attack vectors. For example, it is possible to set a large reward and withdraw all funds from the protocol. Proof of Concept functi...

require statement commented posses attack by malicious contract

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The 'require' statement commented posses attack by malicious contract. The LiquidityMiningPath.sol contract has the Governance requirement of the ‘require’ statement commented. If the intention was to make use of the ‘require’ statement, uncomment it so ...

The governance will fail to add an ecosystem token if someone creates a hToken that uses that ecosystem token

Lines of code Vulnerability details Ecosystem tokens are tokens that dont have an underlying token address in any branch and only the global representation exists. The governance adds them by calling addEcosystemToken where the ecoTokenGlobalAddress will be the Maia or Hermes token as the sponsor...

Lack of proper access restrictions on functions setConcRewards() and setAmbRewards()

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Contract Reward distribution can be drained / manipulated Proof of Concept For setConcRewards and setAmbRewards, they are both lack of proper access restrictions, leads to the situation that anyone can execute these functions. This oversight presents a...

Event not emitted after sensitive action of setting new concentrated and ambient rewards.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The 'setConcRewards' and 'setAmbRewards' doesn't emit event to to signify to all parties involved the new concentrated and ambient results. Proof of Concept A user not aware of new reward price might suppose he/she have been swindled upon realizing that...

Front-Running Vulnerability: Exploiting Reward Updates for Maximized Payouts

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Malicious users claim rewards at a higher rate than what was intended by front-running governance actions meant to reduce rewards. This allows them to claim rewards at a higher rate than what was intended, undermining the protocol's intended economic...

Missing Access Control on setConcRewards and setAmbRewards

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The function setConcRewards and setAmbRewards are accessible by any user to set the rewardsConcentrated and Ambient rewards. Proof of Concept The access validations are commented out. function setConcRewardsbytes32 poolIdx, uint32 weekFrom, uint32 weekTo...

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2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API8:2023 Security Misconfiguration

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Assumptions are currently made that prices would forever be positive

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Neglecting the potential for negative asset prices can lead to inaccurate value representation in the Liquidity Pool, possibly affecting calculations related to assets and tokens. It's crucial to note that the value of an asset, even if negative in the...

Rouge ward can remove auth permission from other wards and then remove themselves

Lines of code Vulnerability details In a protocol, the deny function is used to remove the ward permissions from an address. This is actually a serious thing to consider that can actually occur, if a ward contract or account is obtained and other wards are not aware, the rogue ward can actually...

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