Active Debug Code in synthetic-monitoring-agent - CVE-2022-46156

 

Active Debug Code in synthetic-monitoring-agent - CVE-2022-46156

Published: February 28, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU86892
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-46156
CWE-ID: CWE-489
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to authentication token used to communicate with the Synthetic Monitoring API is exposed through a debugging endpoint. A local user can gain unauthorized access to sensitive information on the system.


Affected software

synthetic-monitoring-agent
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator

How to mitigate CVE-2022-46156

Install updates from vendor's website.

synthetic-monitoring-agent - update to 0.12.0
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator - update to 3.0.0

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