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Critical · 9.1 Public exploit CVE-2023-27290 EUVD-2023-31068GHSA-g98m-73rh-c5j6

IBM Observability with Instana missing authentication

Published Mar 3, 2023 · Updated Mar 5, 2025 · Assigned by ibm

Description

Docker based datastores for IBM Instana (IBM Observability with Instana 239-0 through 239-2, 241-0 through 241-2, and 243-0) do not currently require authentication. Due to this, an attacker within the network could access the datastores with read/write access. IBM X-Force ID: 248737.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
IBM Observability with Instana 239-0 – < 239-2, 241-0 – < 241-2, 243-0 239-2

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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