CVE-2009-0438: IBM WebSphere Application Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 7 before 7.0.0.1 on Windows allows remote attackers to bypass "Authorization checking" and obtain sensitive information from JSP pages via a crafted request. NOTE: this is probably a duplicate of CVE-2008-5412.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Application Server: version 7.0 only

Published 2009-02-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.