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Actively exploited · Published May 7, 2020 · Assigned by ibm

CVE-2020-4427

Critical 9.0 Exploited

In plain English

A critical-severity improper authentication in Data Risk Manager from IBM. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on November 3, 2021). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 70.0% (higher than 99.4% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, Nuclei. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Severity (CVSS 3.0)9.0Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)70.0%top 0.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since Nov 3, 2021
Attack tooling2Metasploit, Nuclei

CISA guidance

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Federal agencies must remediate by May 3, 2022.

Official description

IBM Data Risk Manager 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, and 2.0.6 could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions when configured with SAML authentication. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the authentication process and gain full administrative access to the system. IBM X-Force ID: 180532.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
IBM Data Risk Manager 2.0.12.0.22.0.32.0.42.0.52.0.6

Weakness: CWE-287 · Vector: CVSS:3.0/I:H/UI:N/PR:N/C:H/A:H/AV:N/S:C/AC:H/RL:O/RC:C/E:U

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