CVE-2012-5952

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-02-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

IBM WebSphere Message Broker 6.1 before 6.1.0.12, 7.0 before 7.0.0.6, and 8.0 before 8.0.0.2 does not validate Basic Authentication credentials before proceeding to WS-Addressing and WS-Security operations, which allows remote attackers to trigger transmission of unauthenticated messages via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

IBM WebSphere Message Broker: 6.1, 6.1.0.1, 6.1.0.2, 6.1.0.3, 6.1.0.4, 6.1.0.5 (+14)

References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC89803
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21623316
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80666
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC89803
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21623316
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80666

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