CVE-2019-4442

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 4.3
EPSS: EPSS 2.07 % · percentile 81 (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 file system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request to view arbitrary files on the system but not content. IBM X-Force ID: 163226.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 4.3	CVSS:3.0/PR:L/I:N/C:L/AV:N/S:U/AC:L/A:N/UI:N/E:U/RC:C/RL:O	ibm
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 4.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	NVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2019-14049
GCVE · GCVE-0-2019-4442

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 ≤ 9.0.5.1

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