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Severity
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and 9.0 could provide weaker than expected security, caused by the improper encoding in a local configuration file. IBM X-Force ID: 258637.

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First published (updated )
Severity
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 traditional is vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability when using token-based authentication in an admin request over the SOAP connector. IBM X-Force ID: 178929.

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First published (updated )
Severity
6.1
XSS
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

IBM WebSphere Application Server - Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 20.0.0.3 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session. IBM X-Force ID: 176668.

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Source: IBM
First published (updated )
Severity
6.1
XSS
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

IBM WebSphere Application Server - Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 20.0.0.3 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session. IBM X-Force ID: 176670.

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Source: IBM
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 traditional is vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability when using token-based authentication in an admin request over the SOAP connector. X-Force ID: 175984.

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First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0, under specialized conditions, could allow an authenticated user to create a maliciously crafted file name which would be misinterpreted as jsp content and executed. IBM X-Force ID: 174397.

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First published (updated )
Severity
8.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0, 8.5, 8.5.5, and 9.0 using OpenID Connect (OIDC) configured with a Trust Association Interceptor (TAI) could allow a user to gain elevated privileges on the system. IBM Reference #: 1999293.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.4
XSS
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session. IBM Reference #: 1997743

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Infoleak
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Liberty Profile 8.5.x before 8.5.5.2 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted request.

First published (updated )
Severity
4
Infoleak
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

The Administrative Console in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 8.x before 8.0.0.9 and 8.5.x before 8.5.5.2 allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted request.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The web-server plugin in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 7.x before 7.0.0.33, 8.x before 8.0.0.9, and 8.5.x before 8.5.5.2, when POST retries are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via unspecified vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Infoleak
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 8.x before 8.0.0.9 and 8.5.x before 8.5.5.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted URL.

First published (updated )
Severity
3.5
XSS
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Administrative Console in IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x before 7.0.0.31, 8.0.x before 8.0.0.8, and 8.5.x before 8.5.5.2 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL.

First published (updated )
Severity
3.5
Infoleak
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x before 7.0.0.31, when simpleFileServlet static file caching is enabled, allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x before 7.0.0.31, 8.0.x before 8.0.0.8, and 8.5.x before 8.5.5.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted request to a web services endpoint.

First published (updated )
Severity
3.5
XSS
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Administration Console in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 7.x before 7.0.0.33, 8.x before 8.0.0.9, and 8.5.x before 8.5.5.2, and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise 7.x before 7.0.0.5, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The Web Services Security component in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.0.2 before 6.0.2.35 and 7.0 before 7.0.0.3 has an unspecified "security problem" in the XML digital-signature specification, which has unknown impact and attack vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 7.0 before 7.0.0.3 uses weak permissions (777) for files associated with unspecified "interim fixes," which allows attackers to modify files that would not have been accessible if the intended 755 permissions were used.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The JAX-RPC WS-Security runtime in the Web Services Security component in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.1 before 6.1.0.23 and 7.0 before 7.0.0.3, when APAR PK41002 is installed, does not properly validate UsernameToken objects, which has unknown impact and attack vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

The Web Services Security component in IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0 before Fix Pack 1 (7.0.0.1), 6.1 before Fix Pack 23 (6.1.0.23),and 6.0.2 before Fix Pack 33 (6.0.2.33) does not properly enforce (1) nonce and (2) timestamp expiration values in WS-Security bindings as stored in the com.ibm.wsspi.wssecurity.core custom property, which allows remote authenticated users to conduct session hijacking attacks.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

The administrative console in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.1 before 6.1.0.23 and 7.0 before 7.0.0.3 allows attackers to hijack user sessions in "specific scenarios" related to a forced logout.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
XSS
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the administrative console in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.1 before 6.1.0.23 on z/OS allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Infoleak
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The Servlet Engine/Web Container and JSP components in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 5.1.0, 5.1.1.19, 6.0.2 before 6.0.2.35, 6.1 before 6.1.0.23, and 7.0 before 7.0.0.3 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files contained in war files in (1) web-inf, (2) meta-inf, and unspecified other directories via unknown vectors, related to (a) web-based applications and (b) the administrative console.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.1
Infoleak
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

WSPolicy in the Web Services component in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 7.0.x before 7.0.0.1 does not properly recognize the IDAssertion.isUsed binding property, which allows local users to discover a password by reading a SOAP message.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Unspecified vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 5.1.x before 5.1.1.19, 6.0.x before 6.0.2.29, and 6.1.x before 6.1.0.19, when Web Server plug-in content buffering is enabled, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via unknown vectors, related to a mishandling of client read failures in which clients receive many 500 HTTP error responses and backend servers are incorrectly labeled as down.

First published (updated )
Severity
1.9
Infoleak
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

PerfServlet in the PMI/Performance Tools component in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.0.x before 6.0.2.31, 6.1.x before 6.1.0.21, and 7.0.x before 7.0.0.1, when Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) is enabled, allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the (1) systemout.log and (2) ffdc files. NOTE: this is probably a duplicate of CVE-2008-5413.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The installation process for the File Transfer servlet in the System Management/Repository component in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.1.x before 6.1.0.19 does not enable the secure version, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The (1) modibmssl and (2) modcgid modules in IBM HTTP Server 6.0.x before 6.0.2.31 and 6.1.x before 6.1.0.19, as used in WebSphere Application Server (WAS), set incorrect permissions for AFUNIX sockets, which has unknown impact and local attack vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
1.9
Weak Encryption
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

IBM WebSphere Advanced Server Edition 4.0.4 uses a weak encryption algorithm (XOR and base64 encoding), which allows local users to decrypt passwords when the configuration file is exported to XML.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

IBM WebSphere sets permissions that allow a local user to modify a deinstallation script or its data files stored in /usr/bin.

First published (updated )

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