CVE-2016-2871 (GCVE-0-2016-2871)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-11-30 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:40
VLAI
Summary
IBM QRadar SIEM 7.1 before MR2 Patch 13 and 7.2 before 7.2.7 uses cleartext storage for unspecified passwords, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a configuration file.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
ibm
References
Date Public
2016-07-26 00:00
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