PT-2014-8747 · Ibm · Ibm Websphere Application Server Liberty Profile

Published 2014-12-18 · Updated 2017-09-08 · CVE-2014-8890

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile versions 8.5.x through 8.5.5.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to gain privileges by leveraging the combination of a servlet's deployment descriptor security constraints and ServletSecurity annotations.

Recommendations For versions 8.5.x through 8.5.5.3, update to version 8.5.5.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-8890

Affected Products

Ibm Websphere Application Server Liberty Profile

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8890 · Security Note
• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21690185 · Vendor Advisory
• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI29911 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99009 · Note
• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21963275 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/71834 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1033384 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8890 · Note