VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0741

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 use of the Manual Explore Proxy feature, 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.