VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2162

medium
Published 2012-05-01 · 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
6.8

Description

The Web Server Plug-in in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 8.0 and earlier uses unencrypted HTTP communication after expiration of the plugin-key.kdb password, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network, or spoof arbitrary servers via a man-in-the-middle attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

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_server{"endIncluding":"8.0.0.0"}
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2.8
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2.10
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2.11
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2.12
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2.13
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2.14
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2.15
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.0.2.16
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.0.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.0.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.8
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.10
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.11
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.12
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.13
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.14
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.15
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.16
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server5.1.1.17
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.1.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.1.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.1.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.1.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.1.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.1.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.1.11
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.1.13
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.1.15
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.1.17
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.11
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.13
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.15
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.17
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.19
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.22
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.23
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.24
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.25
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.27
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.28
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.29
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.30
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.31
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.32
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.33
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.35
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.0.2.37
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_server6.1.0.41
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.43
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
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.8
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.11
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.13
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.15
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.17
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.19
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.21

References

CWEs

CWE-310

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

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