VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4862

low
Published 2012-12-05 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
2.1

Description

The Host Connect emulator in IBM Rational Developer for System z 7.1 through 8.5.1 does not properly store the SSL certificate password, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibmrational_developer_for_system_z7.1
ibmrational_developer_for_system_z7.6.2.1
ibmrational_developer_for_system_z7.6.2.2
ibmrational_developer_for_system_z7.6.2.3
ibmrational_developer_for_system_z7.6.2.4
ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.0.1.0
ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.0.2
ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.0.3
ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.0.3.1
ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.0.3.2
ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.0.3.3
ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.5.0
ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.5.0.1
ibmrational_developer_for_system_z8.5.1

References

CWEs

CWE-255

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