Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-43186

Medium

Published: 29 March 2025

Published
29 March 2025
Modified
08 July 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0012 30.4th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-43186 is a medium-severity Plaintext Storage of a Password (CWE-256) vulnerability in Ibm Infosphere Information Server. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 30.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7 could allow an authenticated user to obtain sensitive information that is stored locally under certain conditions.

CWE(s)
CWE-256

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

ibm
infosphere information server
11.7 — 11.7.1

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-28 Protection of Information at Rest
addresses: CWE-256

Protection of passwords and credentials at rest forces encryption or equivalent controls instead of plaintext storage.

References