CVE-2012-0717

low
Published 2012-06-20 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
2.6
VIR risk
2.6

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0 before 7.0.0.23, when a certain SSLv2 configuration with client authentication is used, allows remote attackers to bypass X.509 client-certificate authentication 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.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21595172

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0
ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.1
ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.2
ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.3
ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.4
ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.5
ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.6
ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.7
ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.8
ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.9
ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.11
ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.13
ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.15
ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.17
ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.19
ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.21

References

CWEs

CWE-287

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