CVE-2020-4184 Privilege escalation in Security Guardium

What is CVE-2020-4184?

CVE-2020-4184 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Security Guardium, published on 15 Mar 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Security Guardium 11.2 performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses. IBM X-Force ID: 174802..

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-4184?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Security Guardium.

How do I fix CVE-2020-4184?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4184 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-4184 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4184 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Security Guardium

• CVE-2023-35893 IBM Security Guardium command execution Critical 9.9
• CVE-2017-1253 Command injection in Security Guardium Critical 9.9
• CVE-2017-1269 SQL injection in Security Guardium Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-47709 IBM Security Guardium command injection Critical 9.1
• CVE-2023-30435 IBM Security Guardium cross-site scripting High 8.9

All Ibm Security Guardium vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-2rwc-w9h2-83r7.