VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2173

medium
Published 2012-06-20 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

The ODBC driver in IBM Security AppScan Source 7.x and 8.x before 8.6 sends an SHA-1 hash of the connection password during connections to a solidDB database, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan_source7.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan_source8.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan_source8.0.0.1
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan_source8.0.0.2
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan_source8.5
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan_source8.5.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-255

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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