CVE-2018-1755

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 5.9
EPSS: EPSS 3.48 % · percentile 89 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2018-08-24
Updated: 2024-09-16
Assigner: ibm
NVD status: Modified

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by incorrect transport being used when Liberty is configured to use Java Authentication SPI for Containers (JASPIC). This can happen when the Application Server is configured to permit access on non-secure (http) port and using JASPIC or JSR375 authentication.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 5.9	CVSS:3.0/A:N/AC:H/AV:N/C:H/I:N/PR:N/S:U/UI:N/E:U/RC:C/RL:O	ibm
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 5.9	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 5.9	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-200

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2018-12334
GCVE · GCVE-0-2018-1755

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:liberty:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
IBM · WebSphere Application Server	affected Liberty

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD