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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2015-1957

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

IBM WebSphere MQ 7.5.x before 7.5.0.6 and 8.0.x before 8.0.0.3 allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via a man-in-the-middle attack, related to duplication of message data in cleartext outside the protected payload. IBM X-Force ID: 103482.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published