Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-4829 - Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in IBM XIV Storage System Gen3
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 before 11.2 relies on a default X.509 v3 certificate for authentication, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers by leveraging an inappropriate certificate-trust relationship.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Signature Spoofing by Key Recreation An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by exploiting a cryptographic weakness in the signature algorithm or pseudorandom number generation and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.