CVE-2012-0738: IBM Rational Policy Tester

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Security AppScan Enterprise before 8.6.0.2 and Rational Policy Tester before 8.5.0.3 do not validate X.509 certificates during scanning, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary certificate.

Affected products

• IBM Rational Policy Tester: up to and including 8.5.0.2; version 5.5.0.0 only; version 5.5.0.1 only; version 5.5.0.2 only; version 5.6.0.0 only; version 5.6.0.1 only; …
• IBM Security Appscan: version 6.0.0.0 only; version 6.0.1.0 only; version 6.0.2.0 only; version 6.1.1.0 only; version 8.0.0.0 only; version 8.0.0.1 only; …

Published 2012-12-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.