CVE-2014-3089

medium

Published 2014-08-22 · 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

4.9

Description

The RDS Java Client library in IBM Rational Directory Server (RDS) 5.1.1.x before 5.1.1.2 iFix004 and 5.2.x before 5.2.1 iFix003, and Rational Directory Administrator (RDA) 6.0 before iFix002, includes the cleartext root password, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a library file.

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

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	rational_directory_administrator	`6.0`
ibm	rational_directory_administrator	`6.0.0.1`
ibm	rational_directory_server	`5.1.1`
ibm	rational_directory_server	`5.1.1.1`
ibm	rational_directory_server	`5.1.1.2`
ibm	rational_directory_server	`5.2`
ibm	rational_directory_server	`5.2.0.1`
ibm	rational_directory_server	`5.2.0.2`
ibm	rational_directory_server	`5.2.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-310

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

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