VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-0859

medium
Published 2014-05-01 · Modified 2026-05-06
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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

The web-server plugin in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 7.x before 7.0.0.33, 8.x before 8.0.0.9, and 8.5.x before 8.5.5.2, when POST retries are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) 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_application_server8.0.0.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.8
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.0.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.8
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.10
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.11
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.12
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.13
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.14
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.15
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.16
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.17
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.18
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.19
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.21
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.22
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.23
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.24
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.25
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.27
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.29
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.31

References

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

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