CVE-2020-4678 Path traversal in Security Guardium

What is CVE-2020-4678?

CVE-2020-4678 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Ibm Security Guardium, published on 12 Oct 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Security Guardium 11.2 could allow an attacker with admin access to obtain and read files that they normally would not have access to. IBM X-Force ID: 186423.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-4678?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Security Guardium.

How do I fix CVE-2020-4678?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4678 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2020-4678 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4678 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-vmfc-754p-h4rp.