Adjacent-network privilege gain
Published Mar 15, 2021 · Updated Sep 17, 2024
Improper privilege management in IBM Security Guardium 11.2 allows attackers to gain elevated privileges through an unspecified operation. IBM has not disclosed the affected component or the operation that executes above its minimum required privilege. The public record requires adjacent-network positioning and reports privilege gain, but it does not identify the resulting permissions or concrete actions.
Summary
What happened
Improper privilege management in IBM Security Guardium 11.2 allows attackers to gain elevated privileges through an unspecified operation. IBM has not disclosed the affected component or the operation that executes above its minimum required privilege. The public record requires adjacent-network positioning and reports privilege gain, but it does not identify the resulting permissions or concrete actions.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2020-4184
- Published
- Mar 15, 2021
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2024
- Vendor
- IBM
- Product
- IBM Security Guardium
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1068
- Attack vector
- adjacent
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 15, 2021CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 17, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=11.2
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