CVE-2020-5016

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. When application security is disabled and JAX-RPC applications are present, an attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to view arbitrary xml files on the system. This does not occur if Application security is enabled. IBM X-Force ID: 193556.

Risk Information

Base Score

6.5

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.206

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in IBM WebSphere 8.5.5.20	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-5016,CVE-2021-20354,CVE-2021-20353,CVE-2020-4949 are fixed in IBM WebSphere 9.0.5.7	Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.3.0	Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in IBM Business Automation Workflow 20.0	Windows

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234