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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2017-1583

High
7.5/10

Summary

IBM WebSphere Application Server (IBM Liberty for Java for Bluemix 3.13)could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information caused by improper error handling by MyFaces in JSF.

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