CVE-2024-40697 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting IBM Common Licensing 9.0, stemming from its default lack of strong password enforcement. This weakness (CWE-521) allows attackers to more easily compromise user accounts due to weak credentials. With a CVSS score of 7.5, the vulnerability is network-exploitable with low attack complexity, requiring no user interaction, and could lead to high confidentiality impact. Currently, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:common_licensing:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.