CVE-2019-4268

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 5.3
EPSS: EPSS 2.67 % · percentile 86 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2019-09-17
Updated: 2024-09-16
Assigner: ibm
NVD status: Modified

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. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to view arbitrary files on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 160201.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.0/I:N/PR:N/C:L/AV:N/AC:L/S:U/A:N/UI:N/RL:O/RC:C/E:U	ibm
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	NVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2019-13875
GCVE · GCVE-0-2019-4268

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.0.0.0 ≤ 7.0.0.45
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.0.0.0 ≤ 8.0.0.15
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.5.0.0 ≤ 8.5.5.16
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 9.0.0.0 ≤ 9.0.5.0

Affected products

Product	Versions
IBM · WebSphere Application Server	affected 7.0 ; affected 8.0 ; affected 8.5 ; affected 9.0

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD