CVE-2008-4294: IBM Tivoli Netcool Webtop

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Tivoli Netcool/Webtop 2.1 before 2.1.0.5 preserves cached user privileges after logout, which allows physically proximate attackers to hijack a session by visiting an unattended workstation, as demonstrated by a root session that is still valid after a subsequent read-only session has begun.

Affected products

• IBM Tivoli Netcool Webtop: version 2.1.0 only

Published 2008-09-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.