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CVE-2017-1787
IBM Publishing Engine 2.1.2 and 6.0.5 contains an undisclosed vulnerability that could allow a local user with administrative privileges…
- 4.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.35%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 71% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
IBM Publishing Engine 2.1.2 and 6.0.5 contains an undisclosed vulnerability that could allow a local user with administrative privileges to obtain hard coded user credentials. IBM X-Force ID: 137022.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 15 months later
· 15 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibmCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.0/A:N/AC:L/AV:L/C:H/I:N/PR:H/S:U/UI:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Affected products
IBM · Rational Publishing Engine
- affected 2.1.2
- affected 6.0.5
References
3
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22013961 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/137022 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 103252 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-10803 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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