CVE-2012-4850

high
Published 2012-11-14 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.5

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 Liberty Profile before 8.5.0.1, when JAX-RS is used, does not properly validate requests, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges 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=swg21614265

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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