HCL Sametime is impacted by insecure services in-use on the UIM client by default. An unused legacy REST service was enabled by default using the HTTP protocol. An attacker could potentially use this service endpoint maliciously.
The product initializes or sets a resource with a default that is intended to be changed by the administrator, but the default is not secure.
Developers often choose default values that leave the product as open and easy to use as possible out-of-the-box, under the assumption that the administrator can (or should) change the default value. However, this ease-of-use comes at a cost when the default is insecure and the administrator does not change it.