CVE-2009-0903: IBM WebSphere Application Server

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 7.0 before 7.0.0.3, and the Feature Pack for Web Services for WAS 6.1 before 6.1.0.25, when a WS-Security policy is established at the operation level, does not properly handle inbound requests that lack a SOAPAction or WS-Addressing Action, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted request to a JAX-WS application.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Application Server: version 6.1 only; version 6.1.0 only; version 6.1.0.0 only; version 6.1.0.1 only; version 6.1.0.2 only; version 6.1.0.3 only; …

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