Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-4450 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in IBM Websphere Application Server
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and 9.0 traditional could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system with a specially-crafted sequence of serialized objects. IBM X-Force ID: 181231.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
| NASL family | Web Servers |
| NASL id | WEBSPHERE_CVE-2020-4450.NASL |
| description | The IBM WebSphere Application Server running on the remote host is version 8.5.x prior to 8.5.5.18 or 9.0.x prior to 9.0.5.5. It is, therefore, affected by a remote code execution vulnerability. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by sending a specially-crafted sequence of serialized objects in order to execute arbitrary code on the affected system. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application |
| last seen | 2020-06-13 |
| modified | 2020-06-12 |
| plugin id | 137368 |
| published | 2020-06-12 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/137368 |
| title | IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5.x < 8.5.5.18 / 9.0.x < 9.0.5.5 RCE (CVE-2020-4450) |