What is CVE-2023-50945?

CVE-2023-50945 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Aix, classified under Plaintext Storage of a Password. CVSS score: 6.2/10. Published 2025-01-26.

How severe is CVE-2023-50945?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.2 out of 10.

Vulnerability in IBM Aix

CVE-2023-50945

IBM Common Licensing 9.0 stores user credentials in plain clear text which can be read by a local user.

Published 2025-01-26 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.2 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.001 (2.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 3rd percentile — 2.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7161947 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-50945?: CVE-2023-50945 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Aix, classified under Plaintext Storage of a Password. CVSS score: 6.2/10. Published 2025-01-26.
How severe is CVE-2023-50945?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.2 out of 10.