VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-3040

medium
Published 2013-08-16 · 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 InfoSphere Information Server through 8.5 FP3, 8.7 through FP2, and 9.1 produces login-failure messages indicating whether the username or password is incorrect, which allows remote attackers to enumerate user accounts via a brute-force attack.

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 ibminfosphere_information_server8.5
ibm ibminfosphere_information_server8.5.0.1
ibm ibminfosphere_information_server8.5.0.2
ibm ibminfosphere_information_server8.5.0.3
ibm ibminfosphere_information_server8.7
ibm ibminfosphere_information_server8.7.0.1
ibm ibminfosphere_information_server8.7.0.2
ibm ibminfosphere_information_server9.1

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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