CVE-2020-4362

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 traditional is vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability when using token-based authentication in an admin request over the SOAP connector. IBM X-Force ID: 178929.

Affected products

IBM WebSphere Application Server: from 7.0.0.0 through 7.0.0.45; from 8.0.0.0 through 8.0.0.15; from 8.5.0.0 through 8.5.5.17; from 9.0.0.0 through 9.0.5.3

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/178929
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6174417
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/178929
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6174417

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