What is CVE-2024-45638?

CVE-2024-45638 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Qradar Edr, classified under Plaintext Storage of a Password. CVSS score: 4.1/10. Published 2025-03-14.

How severe is CVE-2024-45638?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.1 out of 10.

Vulnerability in IBM Qradar Edr

CVE-2024-45638

IBM Security QRadar 3.12 EDR stores user credentials in plain text which can be read by a local privileged user.

Published 2025-03-14 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.001 (2.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 2nd percentile — 2.4% 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)

CWE-256 — Plaintext Storage of a Password

References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7185938 (vendor-advisory, patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-45638?: CVE-2024-45638 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Qradar Edr, classified under Plaintext Storage of a Password. CVSS score: 4.1/10. Published 2025-03-14.
How severe is CVE-2024-45638?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.1 out of 10.