CVE-2020-4362: IBM WebSphere Application Server

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 traditional is vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability when using token-based authentication in an admin request over the SOAP connector. IBM X-Force ID: 178929.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Application Server: from 7.0.0.0, up to and including 7.0.0.45; from 8.0.0.0, up to and including 8.0.0.15; from 8.5.0.0, up to and including 8.5.5.17; from 9.0.0.0, up to and including 9.0.5.3

Published 2020-04-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.