VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0738

medium
Published 2012-12-28 · 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
5.8

Description

IBM Security AppScan Enterprise before 8.6.0.2 and Rational Policy Tester before 8.5.0.3 do not validate X.509 certificates during scanning, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary certificate.

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.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan6.0.0.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan6.0.1.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan6.0.2.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan6.1.1.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.0.0.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.0.0.1
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.5.0.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.5.0.1
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.6.0.0
ibm ibmrational_policy_tester{"endIncluding":"8.5.0.2"}
ibm ibmrational_policy_tester5.5.0.0
ibm ibmrational_policy_tester5.5.0.1
ibm ibmrational_policy_tester5.5.0.2
ibm ibmrational_policy_tester5.6.0.0
ibm ibmrational_policy_tester5.6.0.1
ibm ibmrational_policy_tester5.6.0.2
ibm ibmrational_policy_tester5.6.0.3
ibm ibmrational_policy_tester8.0.0.0
ibm ibmrational_policy_tester8.0.0.1
ibm ibmrational_policy_tester8.0.0.2
ibm ibmrational_policy_tester8.0.1.0
ibm ibmrational_policy_tester8.0.1.1
ibm ibmrational_policy_tester8.5.0.0
ibm ibmrational_policy_tester8.5.0.1
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan{"endIncluding":"8.6.0.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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