VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4862

low
Published 2012-12-05 · 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 Host Connect emulator in IBM Rational Developer for System z 7.1 through 8.5.1 does not properly store the SSL certificate password, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

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.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmrational_developer_for_system_z7.1
ibm ibmrational_developer_for_system_z7.6.2.1
ibm ibmrational_developer_for_system_z7.6.2.2
ibm ibmrational_developer_for_system_z7.6.2.3
ibm ibmrational_developer_for_system_z7.6.2.4
ibm ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.0.1.0
ibm ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.0.2
ibm ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.0.3
ibm ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.0.3.1
ibm ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.0.3.2
ibm ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.0.3.3
ibm ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.5.0
ibm ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.5.0.1
ibm ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.5.1

References

CWEs

CWE-255

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

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