CVE-2014-4806: IBM Security Appscan

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The installation process in IBM Security AppScan Enterprise 8.x before 8.6.0.2 iFix 003, 8.7.x before 8.7.0.1 iFix 003, 8.8.x before 8.8.0.1 iFix 002, and 9.0.x before 9.0.0.1 iFix 001 on Linux places a cleartext password in a temporary file, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading this file.

Affected products

• IBM Security Appscan: from 8.0.0.0, before 8.6.0.2 (fixed in 8.6.0.2); from 8.7.0.0, before 8.7.0.1 (fixed in 8.7.0.1); from 8.8.0.0, before 8.8.0.1 (fixed in 8.8.0.1); from 9.0.0.0, before 9.0.0.1 (fixed in 9.0.0.1)

Published 2014-08-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.