Check Point Advisories

IBM solidDB solid.exe Authentication Bypass (CVE-2011-1560)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2011-267
Date Published:	16 May 2011
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Tuesday 10 November, 2015
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2011-1560
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	IBM solidDB is a relational database management system that includes an in-memory database as well as a traditional database, both of which employ the same SQL interface. An authentication bypass vulnerability has been reported in IBM's solidDB. The authentication protocol used by the product allows a remote attacker to specify the length of a password hash which can be abused to bypass authentication to the database. A remote attacker could exploit this issue by specifying a small password hash length value and fuzzing the password hash. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow the attacker to bypass authentication to the database.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block crafted messages sent to the vulnerable server.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the IBM solidDB solid.exe Authentication Bypass protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name: IBM Protection Violation.
Attack Information: IBM solidDB solid.exe authentication bypass