CVE-2009-0891: IBM WebSphere Application Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Web Services Security component in IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0 before Fix Pack 1 (7.0.0.1), 6.1 before Fix Pack 23 (6.1.0.23),and 6.0.2 before Fix Pack 33 (6.0.2.33) does not properly enforce (1) nonce and (2) timestamp expiration values in WS-Security bindings as stored in the com.ibm.wsspi.wssecurity.core custom property, which allows remote authenticated users to conduct session hijacking attacks.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Application Server: version 6.0.2 only; version 6.0.2.1 only; version 6.0.2.2 only; version 6.0.2.3 only; version 6.0.2.4 only; version 6.0.2.5 only; …

Published 2009-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.