CVE-2014-8918: IBM Security Appscan

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Security AppScan Standard 8.x and 9.x before 9.0.1.1 FP1 does not properly verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

Affected products

• IBM Security Appscan: version 8.0.0.0 only; version 8.0.0.1 only; version 8.0.0.2 only; version 8.0.0.3 only; version 8.5.0.0 only; version 8.5.0.1 only; …

Published 2015-02-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.