Security Bulletin: IBM CICS TX Standard is vulnerable to a local user impersonating another legitimate user (CVE-2022-34164).

Summary

IBM CICS TX could allow a local user to impersonate another legitimate user due to improper input validation. The fix removes this vulnerability (CVE-2022-34164) from IBM CICS TX Standard.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-34164
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM CICS TX could allow a local user to impersonate another legitimate user due to improper input validation.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229338 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability by downloading and applying the interim fixes from the table below

Product

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Version

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Defect

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Remediation / First Fix

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IBM CICS TX Standard

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11.1

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127640

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Download the fix from here

Workarounds and Mitigations

None