CVE-2012-0205: IBM InfoSphere Information Server

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

InfoSphere Metadata Workbench (MWB) 8.1 through 8.7 in IBM InfoSphere Information Server 8.1, 8.5 before FP3, and 8.7 does not properly restrict use of the troubleshooting feature, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions or cause a denial of service (workbench outage) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• IBM InfoSphere Information Server: version 8.1 only; version 8.5 only; version 8.5.0.1 only; version 8.5.0.2 only; version 8.7 only
• IBM InfoSphere Metadata Workbench: version 8.1 only; version 8.1.1 only; version 8.1.2 only; version 8.5 only; version 8.7 only

Published 2013-01-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.