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CVE-2014-8890 IBM WebSphere Application Server

Affected softwareIBM WebSphere Application Server
Severity5.1 Medium CVSS 2.0
WeaknessCWE-264
Published18 Dec 2014
Updated17 Jun 2026

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile 8.5.x before 8.5.5.4 allows remote attackers to gain privileges by leveraging the combination of a servlet's deployment descriptor security constraints and ServletSecurity annotations.

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. Published 11 years ago.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment no assessment published
  • Indexed PoC none indexed
  • EPSS 2.3% chance in 30 days

Waratek protection

No exploit published

Within Waratek scope. In the sources we check, nobody has published exploit code for this CVE or reported it being exploited.

VRT has not found a public code change for this CVE yet.

  • Protection none
  • Action not pursued
  • Review automated Upstream data
  • Record active
Decided by Nothing to build a rule from yet: no published exploit, no CISA record of exploitation and no source-level change to read
Finding This CVE affects a known product, but nothing published names a fix and nothing published shows an exploit. That is a statement about the evidence, not about the defect — it does not mean the vulnerability is unimportant or unreachable, only that neither of the two things VRT can act on exists.

Affected software and releases

Products and versions

1 product, 7 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd ibm websphere application server generic 8.5.0.0 · 8.5.0.1 · 8.5.0.2 · 8.5.5.0 · 8.5.5.1 · 8.5.5.2 · 8.5.5.3

References

URLTags
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI29911
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21690185 Vendor Advisory
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21963275
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71834
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033384
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99009

Timeline

Published2014-12-18By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-17NVD's own last-modified date for this record.