CVE-2026-79715

IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Path Traversal

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 5.5
EPSS: EPSS 0.14 % · percentile 3 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-10-13
Updated: 2026-10-16
Assigner: ibm
NVD status: Awaiting Analysis

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server - Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 26.0.0.9 could allow a local attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could use a specially crafted application archive to write files outside the intended directory.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	ibm
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	NVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-100487
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-79715

Affected products

Product	Versions
IBM · WebSphere Application Server - Liberty	affected 17.0.0.3 ≤ 26.0.0.9

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7291394

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