CVE-2012-3314

medium

Published 2012-10-02 · 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

5.8

Description

IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (TFIM) and Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway (TFIMBG) 6.1.1, 6.2.0, 6.2.1, and 6.2.2 allow remote attackers to establish sessions via a crafted message that leverages (1) a signature-validation bypass for SAML messages containing unsigned elements, (2) incorrect validation of XML messages, or (3) a certificate-chain validation bypass for an XML signature element that contains the signing certificate.

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.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	tivoli_federated_identity_manager	`6.1.1`
ibm	tivoli_federated_identity_manager	`6.2.0`
ibm	tivoli_federated_identity_manager	`6.2.1`
ibm	tivoli_federated_identity_manager	`6.2.2`
ibm	tivoli_federated_identity_manager_business_gateway	`6.1.1`
ibm	tivoli_federated_identity_manager_business_gateway	`6.2.0`
ibm	tivoli_federated_identity_manager_business_gateway	`6.2.1`
ibm	tivoli_federated_identity_manager_business_gateway	`6.2.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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