CVE-2012-0741: 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 use of the Manual Explore Proxy feature, 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.