🛡️ CVE-2022-35280 — robotic-process-automation-for-cloud-pak

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-521 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

IBM Robotic Process Automation 21.0.0, 21.0.1, and 21.0.2 does not require that users should have strong passwords by default, which makes it easier for attackers to compromise user accounts. IBM X-Force ID: 230634.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-35280 is classified as CWE-521: Weak Password Requirements. Password rules permit values weak enough to be guessed within a practical amount of effort.

Affected software

CVE-2022-35280 is recorded against 1 package.

  • robotic-process-automation-for-cloud-pak

Timeline and source

Published on 10 August 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
www.ibm.com
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
www.ibm.com

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-521
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-08-10
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
robotic-process-automation-for-cloud-pak — —

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