CVE-2013-3989: IBM Security Appscan

Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Security AppScan Enterprise 8.x before 8.8 sends a cleartext AppScan Source database password in a response, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information, and subsequently conduct man-in-the-middle attacks, by examining the response content.

Affected products

• IBM Security Appscan: version 8.0.0.0 only; version 8.0.0.1 only; version 8.0.0.2 only; version 8.0.1.0 only; version 8.0.1.1 only; version 8.0.11 only; …

Published 2013-10-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.