CVE-2023-38738

IBM OpenPages with Watson information disclosure

State
Published
Severity
6.8 Medium
Published
Jan 19, 2024
Updated
Jun 16, 2025
Reserved
Jul 25, 2023

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Description

IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3 and 9.0 could provide weaker than expected security in a OpenPages environment using Native authentication. If OpenPages is using Native authentication an attacker with access to the OpenPages database could through a series of specially crafted steps could exploit this weakness and gain unauthorized access to other OpenPages accounts. IBM X-Force ID: 262594.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.8 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nibm

Weaknesses

  • CWE-257 Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format

Affected Products

ProductVersions
OpenPages with WatsonIBM
  • 8.3, 9.0Affected

References

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