VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-7418

medium
Published 2017-02-08 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
4.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.4

Description

IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale and the WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance allow some sensitive data to linger in memory instead of being overwritten which could allow a local user with administrator privileges to obtain sensitive information.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
44%
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_extreme_scale7.1.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_extreme_scale7.1.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_extreme_scale8.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_extreme_scale8.6

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.