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…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-287 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-287 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27007951 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 34131 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• websphere-ws-security-session-hijacking(49391) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27006876 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27014463 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• PK66676 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 04:48 UTC.