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Improper Authentication

CVE-2022-43900

Severity Medium
Score 6.5/10

Summary

IBM WebSphere Automation for IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 1.4.2 could provide a weaker than expected security. A local attacker can create an outbound network connection to another system. IBM X-Force ID: 240827.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Improper (or broken) authentication attacks are widespread, and have accounted for many of the worst data breaches in recent years. Improper authentication attacks are a class of vulnerabilities where an attacker impersonates a legitimate user by exploiting weaknesses in either session management or credential management to gain access to the user’s account. This can result in disclosure of sensitive information, and can lead to system compromise, theft, identity theft, and fraud.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published