Security Bulletin: IBM Security Verify Bridge uses a hard-coded key to encrypt the client secret (CVE-2021-20442)

Summary The obfuscation logic in IBM Security Verify Bridge ISVB relies on a hard-coded key to encrypt the client secret string. This means all ISVB users have the same encryption key. As of v1.0.5, ISVB has re-implemented its obfuscation logic so that each user gets assigned a unique key...

CVE-2021-20442

CVE-2021-20442 affects IBM Security Verify Bridge (ISVB). The issue is hard-coded credentials, including a hard-coded key used to encrypt the client secret, meaning all ISVB deployments prior to the fix rely on a shared credential. IBM notes that as of v1.0.5 ISVB re-implements its obfuscation so...