CVE-2014-8890

medium

Published 2014-12-18 · 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

5.1

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile 8.5.x before 8.5.5.4 allows remote attackers to gain privileges by leveraging the combination of a servlet's deployment descriptor security constraints and ServletSecurity annotations.

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	websphere_application_server	`8.5.0.0`
ibm	websphere_application_server	`8.5.0.1`
ibm	websphere_application_server	`8.5.0.2`
ibm	websphere_application_server	`8.5.5.0`
ibm	websphere_application_server	`8.5.5.1`
ibm	websphere_application_server	`8.5.5.2`
ibm	websphere_application_server	`8.5.5.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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