SB2025060429 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Guardium Data Security Center 



SB2025060429 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Guardium Data Security Center

Published: June 4, 2025 Updated: September 12, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2025060429
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 43
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

High 16% Medium 67% Low 16%
  • Low
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 43 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Missing authorization (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22235)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in EndpointRequest.to() implementation. The function creates a matcher for null/** if the actuator endpoint, for which the EndpointRequest has been created, is disabled or not exposed. A remote non-authenticated attacker can gain unauthorized access to the application.


2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-30635)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when calling Decoder.Decode on a message which contains deeply nested structures. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


3) Improper validation of integrity check value (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3727)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of integrity check. A remote attacker can trick the victim into providing authenticated registry accesses, causing resource exhaustion, local path traversal, and other attacks.


4) Incorrect authorization (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-41110)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authorization checks.

The vulnerability exists due to AuthZ zero length regression. A remote user can bypass authentication and gain elevated privileges.


5) Improper authorization (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45337)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to the application.

The vulnerability exists due to improper authorization caused by improper usage of the ServerConfig.PublicKeyCallback callback. A remote attacker can bypass authorization in certain cases and gain access to the application.


6) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-53104)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to an out-of-bounds read error within the uvc_parse_format() function in drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c. A local user can trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.


7) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2961)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the iconv() function when converting string to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application, trigger a 4 byte buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


8) Stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-33599)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in nscd binary. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exhaust the nscd fixed size cache to trigger a stack-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.



9) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45338)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in several Parse functions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


10) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-12133)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources processing a large number of SEQUENCE OF or SET OF elements in a certificate. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


11) Use of uninitialized variable (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-26147)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to usage of an uninitialized variable when using the LoadIndexFile or DownloadIndexFile functions in the repo package or the LoadDir function in the plugin package. If index.yaml file or a plugins plugin.yaml file are missing in the repository, the application crashes.


12) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-12243)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to libtasn1 does not properly control consumption of internal resources when decoding certain DER-encoded certificate data. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


13) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-0395)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when the assert() function fails. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


14) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22871)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests when handling chunked data in net/http. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and smuggle arbitrary HTTP headers.

Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to poison HTTP cache and perform phishing attacks.


15) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22872)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform code injection attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of tags with unquoted attribute values that end with a solidus character (/). The tokenizer can interpret such tags as self-closing, leading to content following such tags as being placed in the wrong scope during DOM construction.


16) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-41721)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP/2 request smuggling attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP/2 requests when using MaxBytesHandler. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP/2 request to the server and smuggle arbitrary HTTP headers.

Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to poison HTTP cache and perform phishing attacks.


17) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-44716)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


18) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-27664)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an HTTP/2 connection can hang during closing if shutdown were preempted by a fatal error. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


19) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22870)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to alter application's behavior.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of an IPv6 zone ID as a hostname component, when matching hosts against proxy patterns. For instance the NO_PROXY environment variable is set to "*.example.com", a request to "[::1%25.example.com]:80` will incorrectly match and not be proxied. A remote attacker can alter application behavior and potentially  gain access to sensitive information or functionality.


20) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22868)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the jws package does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling malformed tokens. A remote attacker can pass a malformed JWT token to the application, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


21) Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-29018)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to excessive data output by the application within external DNS requests from "internal" networks. A remote attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive information on the system.


22) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-24790)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to modify application behavior.

The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses in net/netip within multiple methods, e.g. IsPrivate, IsLoopback. The affected methods return false for addresses which would return true in their traditional IPv4 forms, leading to potential bypass of implemented security features.


23) Insufficient technical documentation (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-51744)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due due to unclear documentation of the error behavior in "ParseWithClaims". A remote attacker can trick the victim into accepting invalid tokens, which can lead to information disclosure.


24) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-30204)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the parse.ParseUnverified function when parsing authorization header. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP response to the application, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


25) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-52922)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the bcm_release() function in net/can/bcm.c. A local user can escalate privileges on the system.


26) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-53197)

The vulnerability allows a local user to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to an out-of-bounds write error within the snd_usb_create_quirk(), snd_usb_extigy_boot_quirk(), mbox2_setup_48_24_magic() and snd_usb_mbox2_boot_quirk() functions in sound/usb/quirks.c. A local user can trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited against Android devices.


27) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22869)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the ssh package when handling clients that complete the key exchange slowly, or not at all. A remote user can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


28) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-56171)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the xmlSchemaIDCFillNodeTables() and xmlSchemaBubbleIDCNodeTables() functions in xmlschemas.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted XML document to the application, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.


29) Stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-24928)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the xmlSnprintfElements() function in valid.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted XML data to the application, trigger a stack-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


30) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9047)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the xmlSnprintfElementContent function of XMLSoft libxml2 due to improper memory handling by the valid.c source code. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted XML file, trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.


31) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-45142)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of HTTP header User-Agent and HTTP method. A remote attacker can send multiple requests with long randomly generated HTTP methods or/and User agents and consume memory resources, leading to a denial of service condition.

32) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-24786)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop when parsing data in an invalid JSON format within the protojson.Unmarshal() function. A remote attacker can consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.


33) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-45288)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient limitations placed on the amount of CONTINUATION frames that can be sent within a single HTTP/2 stream. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP/2 requests to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

34) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-49568)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling responses from a Git server. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


35) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-49569)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences. A remote attacker can overwrite arbitrary files on the system. Applications are only affected if they are using the ChrootOS, which is the default when using "Plain" versions of Open and Clone funcs (e.g. PlainClone).


36) UNIX symbolic link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-6597)

The vulnerability allows a local user to delete arbitrary files on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a symlink following issue during cleanup when handling temporary files. A local user can create a specially crafted symbolic link to a critical file on the system and delete it.


37) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10220)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary commands on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when handling gitRepo volumes. A remote user with the ability to create a pod and associate a gitRepo volume can execute arbitrary commands beyond the container boundary.


38) Improper authentication (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10963)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication process.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in pam_access module where certain rules in its configuration file are mistakenly treated as hostnames. A remote attacker can bypass authentication process and gain unauthorized access to the system.


39) Use of Uninitialized Variable (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-12085)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to information leak when comparing file checksums. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the daemon and read 1 byte of uninitialized memory from stack.


40) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-12254)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in asyncio._SelectorSocketTransport.writelines(). A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


41) Improper authentication (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-12797)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when using RFC7250 Raw Public Keys (RPKs) to authenticate a server. TLS and DTLS connections using raw public keys are vulnerable to man-in-middle attacks when server authentication failure is not detected by clients.

Note, the vulnerability can be exploited only when TLS clients explicitly enable RPK use by the server, and the server, likewise, enables sending of an RPK instead of an X.509 certificate chain.


42) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-21626)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to an internal file descriptor leak that can cause a newly-spawned container process (from runc exec) to have a working directory in the host filesystem namespace or a malicious image to allow a container process to gain access to the host filesystem through runc run. A remote attacker can trick the victim into loading a malicious image to bypass sandbox restrictions and execute arbitrary code on the host OS.


43) Insufficient verification of data authenticity (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-24557)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient verification of data authenticity. A remote attacker can poison victim´s cache by making them pull a specially crafted image that would be considered as a valid cache candidate for some build steps.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.