Insecure Password Encryption in IBM Maximo Asset Management and Related Products

CVE-2015-1934 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

IBM Maximo Asset Management 7.1 through 7.1.1.13, 7.5.0 before 7.5.0.8 IFIX002, and 7.6.0 before 7.6.0.1 IFIX001; Maximo Asset Management 7.5.x before 7.5.0.8 IFIX002 and 7.6.0 before 7.6.0.1 IFIX001 for SmartCloud Control Desk; and Maximo Asset Management 7.1 through 7.1.1.13 and 7.2 for Tivoli IT Asset Management for IT and certain other products do not properly encrypt passwords, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine cleartext passwords by leveraging access to a password file.

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