CVE-2003-1447: IBM WebSphere Application Server

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM WebSphere Advanced Server Edition 4.0.4 uses a weak encryption algorithm (XOR and base64 encoding), which allows local users to decrypt passwords when the configuration file is exported to XML.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Application Server: version 4.0.4 only

Published 2003-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.