CVE-2021-29754

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 4.2
EPSS: EPSS 0.74 % · percentile 55 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2021-06-11
Updated: 2024-09-16
Assigner: ibm
NVD status: Modified

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability when using the SAML Web Inbound Trust Association Interceptor (TAI). IBM X-Force ID: 202006.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 4.2	CVSS:3.0/S:U/AC:H/AV:N/C:L/UI:N/PR:L/I:L/A:N/RC:C/E:U/RL:O	ibm
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 4.2	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N	NVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 6.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2021-16228
GCVE · GCVE-0-2021-29754

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.0.0.0 < 7.0.0.45
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.0.0.0 < 8.0.0.15
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.5.0.0 < 8.5.5.20
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 9.0.0.0 < 9.0.5.8

Affected products

Product	Versions
IBM · WebSphere Application Server	affected 7.0 ; affected 8.0 ; affected 8.5 ; affected 9.0

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