CVE-2012-0205

medium
Published 2013-01-31 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.5
VIR risk
6.5

Description

InfoSphere Metadata Workbench (MWB) 8.1 through 8.7 in IBM InfoSphere Information Server 8.1, 8.5 before FP3, and 8.7 does not properly restrict use of the troubleshooting feature, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions or cause a denial of service (workbench outage) via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@us.ibm.com — http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21623501

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibminfosphere_information_server8.1
ibminfosphere_information_server8.5
ibminfosphere_information_server8.5.0.1
ibminfosphere_information_server8.5.0.2
ibminfosphere_information_server8.7
ibminfosphere_metadata_workbench8.1
ibminfosphere_metadata_workbench8.1.1
ibminfosphere_metadata_workbench8.1.2
ibminfosphere_metadata_workbench8.5
ibminfosphere_metadata_workbench8.7

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.