CVE-2022-40234

mediumpriority · track · 24EPSS 0.006 · 49 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.61% (49th) EPSS

CVSS 5.9 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Versions of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus prior to 10.1.12 (excluding 10.1.12) include the private key information for a certificate inside the generated .crt file when uploading a TLS certificate to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. If this generated .crt file is shared, an attacker can obtain the private key information for the uploaded certificate. IBM X-Force ID: 235718.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.15.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 3.6

v3.05.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/UI:N/S:U/I:N/A:N/AC:H/PR:N/C:H/RC:C/E:U/RL:Osecondary · ENISA EU

v3.05.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · psirt@us.ibm.com USexploitability 2.2 · impact 3.6

v3.15.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-668USprimary

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

IBM Spectrum Protect plus 10.1all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:spectrum_protect:plus_10.1
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus≤ 10.1.0enisa_euvdEU
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus≤ 10.1.11enisa_euvdEU
ibm spectrum protect plus< 10.1.12nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_protect_plus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2022-1461IBM Spectrum Protect: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2022-09-18csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in IBM Spectrum Protect ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erweitern, beliebigen Programmcode mit Administratorrechten auszuführen, Informationen offenzulegen, Dateien zu manipulieren, einen Cross-Site-Scripting-Angriff durchzuführen, einen Denial of Service Zustand herbeizuführen oder Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-09-19modified 2026-06-17

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references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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