VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-3989

low
Published 2013-10-25 · 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
3.5

Description

IBM Security AppScan Enterprise 8.x before 8.8 sends a cleartext AppScan Source database password in a response, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information, and subsequently conduct man-in-the-middle attacks, by examining the response content.

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 ibmsecurity_appscan8.0.0.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.0.0.1
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.0.0.2
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.0.1.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.0.1.1
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.0.11
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.5.0.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.5.0.1
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.6.0.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.6.0.1
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.6.0.2
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.7.0.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.7.0.1

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.