CVE-2012-5756: IBM WebSphere Datapower XC10 Appliance

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The IBM WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance 2.0.0.0 through 2.0.0.3 and 2.1.0.0 through 2.1.0.2, when a collective configuration is enabled, has a single secret key that is shared across different customers' installations, which allows remote attackers to spoof a container server by (1) sniffing the network to locate a cleartext transmission of this key or (2) leveraging knowledge of this key from another installation.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Datapower XC10 Appliance: version 2.0.0.0 only; version 2.0.0.1 only; version 2.0.0.2 only; version 2.0.0.3 only; version 2.1.0.0 only; version 2.1.0.1 only; …

Published 2012-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.