CVE-2023-38738 IBM OpenPages with Watson information disclosure

What is CVE-2023-38738?

CVE-2023-38738 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM OpenPages with Watson, published on 19 Jan 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3 and 9.0 could provide weaker than expected security in a OpenPages environment using Native authentication. If OpenPages is using Native authentication an attacker with access to the OpenPages database could through a series of specially crafted steps could exploit this weakness and gain unauthorized access to other OpenPages accounts. IBM X-Force ID: 262594.

Weakness: CWE-257

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-38738?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Openpages With Watson.

How do I fix CVE-2023-38738?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-38738 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2023-38738 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-38738 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM OpenPages with Watson

• CVE-2023-40683 IBM OpenPages with Watson privilege escalation High 8.8
• CVE-2021-29907 File upload in OpenPages with Watson High 8.8
• CVE-2024-49781 IBM OpenPages XML external entity injection High 7.1
• CVE-2024-49782 IBM OpenPages improper certificate validation Medium 6.8
• CVE-2023-43039 IBM OpenPages with Watson cross-site scripting Medium 6.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-p56m-3v53-439x.