CVE-2018-1890

IBM WebSphere Application Server Patterns

MEDIUM 5.6

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 0.46 % · percentile 40 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2019-03-11 22:00 UTC
Updated: 2025-02-13 16:27 UTC
Assigner: ibm
NVD status: Modified

Description

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Version 8 on the AIX platform uses absolute RPATHs which may facilitate code injection and privilege elevation by local users. IBM X-Force ID: 152081.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-427 — Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 5.6	CVSS:3.0/A:L/AC:H/AV:L/C:L/I:L/PR:N/S:C/UI:N/E:U/RC:C/RL:O	ibm
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 5.6	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L	NVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.0	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 4.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2018-12469
GCVE · GCVE-0-2018-1890

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2021-AVI-536 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans IBM InfoSphere · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2019-AVI-251 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:ibm:sdk:8.0:*:*:*:java_technology:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
IBM · WebSphere Application Server Patterns	affected 1.0.0.0 ; affected 1.0.0.7 ; affected 2.2.0.0 ; affected 2.2.5.3
IBM · WebSphere Application Server	affected 7.0 ; affected 8.0 ; affected 8.5 ; affected 9.0 ; affected Liberty
IBM · Runtimes for Java Technology

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
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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