Vulnerability CVE-2003-1447
Published: 2003-12-31   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
IBM WebSphere Advanced Server Edition 4.0.4 uses a weak encryption algorithm (XOR and base64 encoding), which allows local users to decrypt passwords when the configuration file is exported to XML.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Weak password protection in WebSphere 4.0.4 XML configuration export
Jan P. Monsch
23.10.2007

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
1.9/10
2.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
IBM -> Websphere application server 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3277
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/310118
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/310796
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6758
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11245
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