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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2015-7418

Severity Medium
Score 4.4/10

Summary

IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale and the WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance allow some sensitive data to linger in memory instead of being overwritten which could allow a local user with administrator privileges to obtain sensitive information.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • 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