CVE-2012-3314: IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (TFIM) and Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway (TFIMBG) 6.1.1, 6.2.0, 6.2.1, and 6.2.2 allow remote attackers to establish sessions via a crafted message that leverages (1) a signature-validation bypass for SAML messages containing unsigned elements, (2) incorrect validation of XML messages, or (3) a certificate-chain validation bypass for an XML signature element that contains the signing certificate.

Affected products

  • IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager: version 6.1.1 only; version 6.2.0 only; version 6.2.1 only; version 6.2.2 only
  • IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway: version 6.1.1 only; version 6.2.0 only; version 6.2.1 only; version 6.2.2 only

Published 2012-10-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.