Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure authenticated Guardium user to attacker page
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DeliveryBrowser auto-sends forged GET request
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ExploitImproper CSRF token validation accepts it
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ExecutionUnauthorized state-changing action executes with victim's session
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ImpactIntegrity of Guardium configuration/data compromised
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security Anti-CSRF tokens, SameSite cookies
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires an attacker to induce an already-authenticated Guardium Data Protection user to interact with attacker-controlled web content (UI:R), and the targeted deployment must be running version 12.2.4 with the flawed GET-request CSRF token validation. The attacker needs no credentials of their own (PR:N) - they rely on the victim's active, authenticated Guardium session. Limiting factors: the victim must be logged in and must trigger the forged request (so purely unattended servers are not directly affected), the Guardium web interface must be reachable from the victim's browser, and impact is confined to integrity (state-changing actions) with no direct confidentiality or availability loss. |
| Impact | This is a medium-severity CSRF issue (CVSS 6.5) in IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2.4, confirmed and reported by IBM with a patch available. The CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N indicates a network-reachable, low-complexity attack that needs no attacker-side privileges but DOES require user interaction (UI:R), with impact limited to integrity (I:H) and no confidentiality or availability effect - consistent with CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery), where the attacker forges state-changing requests that the victim's authenticated browser executes. The vuln.today decision label is 'this_month', not act_now or emergency, which aligns with the signal picture: there is no CISA KEV listing, no EPSS exploitation-probability figure was supplied, and no public exploit or PoC reference is present in the input. In short, the signals are internally consistent - a real but not urgent issue: genuine integrity risk gated by required user interaction, with no evidence of active exploitation or available exploit code. Missing data to note explicitly: no EPSS score was provided, so probabilistic exploitation likelihood cannot be quantified; and the precise set of GET-reachable state-changing actions is not enumerated in the description, so the concrete integrity impact per action is unverified. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a malicious web page or link that issues a forged GET request to a Guardium Data Protection instance; when a logged-in Guardium user visits it, their authenticated session silently executes the state-changing request because CSRF tokens are not properly validated for GET requests. No public exploit or PoC reference was provided, and the attack depends on luring an authenticated user (UI:R), but low attack complexity (AC:L) means the forged request itself is trivial to construct once a reachable endpoint is known. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Nov 08, 2026
CSRF token validation weaknesses in IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2.4 allow remote attackers to bypass security restrictions on GET requests and forge state-changing actions within an authenticated user's session. The attacker needs no credentials of their own (PR:N) but must induce a logged-in victim to interact with attacker-controlled content (UI:R); impact is confined to integrity (C:N/I:H/A:N). IBM provides a vendor patch, and no public exploit identified at time of analysis.
RemediationAI
Patch available per vendor advisory: apply the update referenced in IBM's support page at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7295791; the supplied data does not specify an exact fixed version, so the advisory should be used to confirm the patched build. No separate workaround is identified in the provided evidence; the exposure depends on a logged-in Guardium user interacting with attacker-controlled web content while the Guardium web interface is reachable. Because the decision label is this_month and no KEV or public exploit confirmation is present, schedule the vendor update within that remediation window and validate that the installed build includes the CSRF token validation fix.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) in IBM Guardium Data Protection's web interface, where CSRF token validation for GET requests is improperly implemented. In a CSRF attack the victim's browser carries their existing authenticated session, so a forged request can perform state-changing operations without the attacker knowing credentials; the CVSS vector confirms network reachability, low attack complexity, no attacker privileges, and required user interaction, with integrity-only impact. The supplied CPE cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* identifies the Guardium Data Protection product family but does not pin a version; the description and independent assessment specify version 12.2.4 as the affected deployment, and the exact request flow that fails token validation is not detailed beyond the GET-request CSRF description.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CSRF lets a remote unauthenticated attacker (PR:N) forge a GET request executed via the victim's authenticated session, requiring user interaction (UI:R); impact is integrity-only (I:H, C:N, A:N).
Primary rating from Vendor (ibm).
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2.4 could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions due to improper validation of CSRF tokens for GET requests.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Request Forgery exploits the automatic credential inclusion behavior of web browsers.
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