CVE-2021-29753 - Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Severity

59%

Complexity

22%

Confidentiality

60%

IBM Business Automation Workflow 18. 19, 20, 21, and IBM Business Process Manager 8.5 and d8.6 transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Demo Examples

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

CWE-319

The following code attempts to establish a connection to a site to communicate sensitive information.


               
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hu.disconnect();
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Though a connection is successfully made, the connection is unencrypted and it is possible that all sensitive data sent to or received from the server will be read by unintended actors.

Overview

First reported 3 years ago

2021-11-05 18:15:00

Last updated 3 years ago

2021-11-09 14:24:00

Affected Software

IBM Business Process Manager 8.6.0.0

8.6.0.0

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