CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.0. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
Original NVD Description
IBM Maximo Asset Management 7.1 through 7.1.1.13, 7.5.0 before 7.5.0.8 IFIX002, and 7.6.0 before 7.6.0.1 IFIX001; Maximo Asset Management 7.5.x before 7.5.0.8 IFIX002 and 7.6.0 before 7.6.0.1 IFIX001 for SmartCloud Control Desk; and Maximo Asset Management 7.1 through 7.1.1.13 and 7.2 for Tivoli IT Asset Management for IT and certain other products do not properly encrypt passwords, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine cleartext passwords by leveraging access to a password file.