VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-5066

low
Published 2012-01-15 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.1

Description

The SibRaRecoverableSiXaResource class in the Default Messaging Component in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.1 before 6.1.0.41 does not properly handle a Service Integration Bus (SIB) dump operation involving the First Failure Data Capture (FFDC) introspection code, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the FFDC log file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.11
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.12
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.15
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.17
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.19
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.21
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.23
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.25
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.27
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.29
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.31
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.33
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.35
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.37
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.39
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.13
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.14

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.