CVE-2018-1851

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.3
EPSS: EPSS 3.87 % · percentile 90 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2018-10-31
Updated: 2024-09-16
Assigner: ibm
NVD status: Modified

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty OpenID Connect could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper deserialization. By sending a specially-crafted request to the RP service, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. IBM X-Force ID: 150999.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	HIGH 7.3	CVSS:3.0/A:L/AC:L/AV:N/C:L/I:L/PR:N/S:U/UI:N/E:U/RC:C/RL:O	ibm
CVSS 3.0	HIGH 7.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	NVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.0	CRITICAL 9.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	HIGH 7.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-502

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2018-12430
GCVE · GCVE-0-2018-1851

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:liberty:*:*:* < 18.0.0.3

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