Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-38738

Medium

Published: 19 January 2024

Published
19 January 2024
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0006 18.0th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-38738 is a medium-severity Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format (CWE-257) vulnerability in Ibm Openpages With Watson. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 18.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3 and 9.0 could provide weaker than expected security in a OpenPages environment using Native authentication. If OpenPages is using Native authentication an attacker with access to the OpenPages database could through a series of specially…

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crafted steps could exploit this weakness and gain unauthorized access to other OpenPages accounts. IBM X-Force ID: 262594.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

ibm
openpages with watson
9.0 · 8.3 — 8.3.0.2.7

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References