Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-3989 - Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in IBM Security Appscan
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
SINGLE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
IBM Security AppScan Enterprise 8.x before 8.8 sends a cleartext AppScan Source database password in a response, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information, and subsequently conduct man-in-the-middle attacks, by examining the response content.
Vulnerable Configurations
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.