CWE-296

Improper Following of a Certificate's Chain of Trust

The product does not follow, or incorrectly follows, the chain of trust for a certificate back to a trusted root certificate, resulting in incorrect trust of any resource that is associated with that certificate.

CVE-2024-43196 (GCVE-0-2024-43196)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-20 03:42
Modified
2025-08-15 14:32
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-296 - Improper Following of a Certificate's Chain of Trust
Summary
IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3 and 9.0  application could allow an authenticated user to manipulate data in the Questionnaires application allowing the user to spoof other users' responses.
References
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7183541vendor-advisory, patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM OpenPages with Watson Version: 8.3, 9.0
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:openpages_with_watson:8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:openpages_with_watson:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Mitigation

Phase: Architecture and Design

Description:

  • Ensure that proper certificate checking is included in the system design.
Mitigation

Phase: Implementation

Description:

  • Understand, and properly implement all checks necessary to ensure the integrity of certificate trust integrity.
Mitigation

Phase: Implementation

Description:

  • If certificate pinning is being used, ensure that all relevant properties of the certificate are fully validated before the certificate is pinned, including the full chain of trust.

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