CVE-2013-0523

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-06-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

IBM WebSphere Commerce Enterprise 5.6.x through 5.6.1.5, 6.0.x through 6.0.0.11, and 7.0.x through 7.0.0.7 does not use a suitable encryption algorithm for storefront web requests, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a padding oracle attack that targets certain UTF-8 processing of the krypto parameter, and leverages unspecified browser access or traffic-log access.

Affected products

IBM WebSphere Commerce Enterprise: 5.6.1, 5.6.1.1, 5.6.1.2, 5.6.1.3, 5.6.1.4, 5.6.1.5 (+20)

References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1JR46386
http://www.vsecurity.com/advisory/20130619-1.txt
http://www.vsecurity.com/resources/advisory/20130619-1/
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82541
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21640597
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1JR46386
http://www.vsecurity.com/advisory/20130619-1.txt
http://www.vsecurity.com/resources/advisory/20130619-1/
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82541
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21640597

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