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CVE-2020-4673 (GCVE-0-2020-4673)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-12 14:45 – Updated: 2024-09-16 16:42
VLAI
Summary
IBM Workload Automation 9.5 stores sensitive information in HTML comments that could aid in further attacks against the system. IBM X-Force ID: 186286.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/A:N/AV:N/AC:L/UI:N/C:L/PR:L/S:U/I:N/E:U/RC:C/RL:O
CWE
  • Obtain Information
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM Workload Automation Affected: 9.5
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Date Public
2021-01-11 00:00
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