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CVE-2022-39168 — IBM Robotic Process Automation Clients are vulnerable to proxy credentials being

IBM Robotic Process Automation Clients are vulnerable to proxy credentials being exposed in upgrade logs. IBM X-Force ID: 235422.

CVSS

4.6 MEDIUM

EPSS

0.21% (top 57.60%)

CWE

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Published

2022-09-29T15:40:09.460Z

Last modified

2025-05-20T17:46:35.793Z

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/PR:N/S:U/UI:N/I:N/C:H/AV:P/A:N/AC:L/RL:O/E:U/RC:C

01What is this vulnerability?

IBM Robotic Process Automation Clients are vulnerable to proxy credentials being exposed in upgrade logs. IBM X-Force ID: 235422.

Vendor	Product	Versions
IBM	Robotic Process Automation	21.0.3, 21.0.4

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

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No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

www.ibm.com — https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6824885
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com — https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235422

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