VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-5952

medium
Published 2013-02-20 · 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

IBM WebSphere Message Broker 6.1 before 6.1.0.12, 7.0 before 7.0.0.6, and 8.0 before 8.0.0.2 does not validate Basic Authentication credentials before proceeding to WS-Addressing and WS-Security operations, which allows remote attackers to trigger transmission of unauthenticated messages via unspecified vectors.

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.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.8
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.10
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.11
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker7.0.
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker7.0.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker7.0.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker7.0.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker7.0.0.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker7.0.0.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker8.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker8.0.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-287

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

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