CVE-2018-1756: IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence 5.2.3.2 and 5.2.4 is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL…

PriorityP264high7.5CVSS 3.0

AVNACLPRNUINSUCHINAN

EXPLOIT

EPSS

10.60%

95.3th percentile

IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence 5.2.3.2 and 5.2.4 is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements, which could allow the attacker to view, information in the back-end database. IBM X-Force ID: 148599.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
ibm	security_identity_governance_and_intelligence	—	—
ibm	security_identity_governance_and_intelligence	—	—

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

url/survey/api/config?userId=↗

commanduserId=1 'AND 1=1 AND '2'='2↗

→Monitor HTTP GET requests to /survey/api/config endpoint for SQL metacharacters or injection patterns in the userId parameter (e.g. single quotes, AND/OR boolean logic, comment sequences). ↗
→The exploit is unauthenticated — no session cookie or auth token is required. Alert on anomalous or malformed userId values reaching this endpoint from unauthenticated sessions. ↗
→Sample attacker User-Agent observed in the PoC: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36 — correlate with suspicious userId payloads. ↗

·Affected versions are IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence 5.2.3.2 and 5.2.4 only; detections should be scoped to these versions. ↗
·The injection point is specifically the userId query parameter of the /survey/api/config REST endpoint; other parameters on the same endpoint are not confirmed vulnerable. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.5HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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