CVE-2022-40234 Information disclosure in Spectrum Protect Plus

What is CVE-2022-40234?

CVE-2022-40234 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, published on 19 Sep 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Versions of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus prior to 10.1.12 (excluding 10.1.12) include the private key information for a certificate inside the generated .crt file when uploading a TLS certificate to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. If this generated .crt file is shared, an attacker can obtain the private key information for the uploaded certificate. IBM X-Force ID: 235718.

Weakness: CWE-668

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-40234?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Spectrum Protect Plus.

How do I fix CVE-2022-40234?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-40234 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-40234 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-40234 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

• CVE-2020-4854 Hardcoded credentials in Spectrum Protect Plus Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4242 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus High 8.8
• CVE-2019-4357 Code injection in Spectrum Protect Plus High 8.2
• CVE-2020-4469 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus High 8.1
• CVE-2020-4703 File upload in Spectrum Protect Plus High 8.0

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-rp88-5vg5-8wx2.