CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-50945

Plaintext Storage of a Password

Published: Jan 26, 2025 | Modified: Mar 11, 2025

CVSS 3.x

5.5

MEDIUM

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-50945
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/256.html

IBM Common Licensing 9.0 stores user credentials in plain clear text which can be read by a local user.

Weakness

Storing a password in plaintext may result in a system compromise.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Common_licensing	Ibm	9.0.0 (including)	9.0.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7161947

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