IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence (SonarG) 4.0 uses hard coded credentials which could allow a local user to obtain highly sensit…

published 2019-10-28 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-13916

cvss: 5.9; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 20%
public exploits: 0; none known

IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence (SonarG) 4.0 uses hard coded credentials which could allow a local user to obtain highly sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 161035.

Patch / fix

links 1

ibm.com/support/pages/node/1096348 advisory

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Exploit prediction

0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 20% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	5.9	CVSS:3.0/A:N/C:H/UI:N/AV:L/I:N/PR:N/S:C/AC:H/E:U/RC:C/RL:O
NVD	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CNA	3.0	5.9	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	2.1	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence

Classification

Weakness

CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

ibm.com /support/pages/node/1096348
patch, vendor-advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/161035
vdb-entry, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-4309
NVD CVE-2019-4309

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