Security News > 2022 > December > Researchers Disclose Supply-Chain Flaw Affecting IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL

IBM has fixed a high-severity security vulnerability affecting its Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL product that could be potentially exploited to tamper with internal repositories and run unauthorized code.

The privilege escalation flaw, dubbed "Hell's Keychain" by cloud security firm Wiz, has been described as a "First-of-its-kind supply-chain attack vector impacting a cloud provider's infrastructure."

"The vulnerability consists of a chain of three exposed secrets coupled with overly permissive network access to internal build servers," Wiz researchers Ronen Shustin and Shir Tamari said.

An attack of this kind could have severe ramifications, as it enables the adversary to overwrite arbitrary files that are used in the build process of the PostgreSQL image, which would then be installed on every database instance.

The American technology giant, in an independent advisory, said that all IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL instances were potentially impacted by the bug, but noted that it found no evidence of malicious activity.

"These vulnerabilities could have been exploited by a malicious actor as part of an extensive exploit chain culminating in a supply-chain attack on the platform," the researchers said.

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