CVE-2012-3337 Path traversal in InfoSphere Guardium

What is CVE-2012-3337?

CVE-2012-3337 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in IBM InfoSphere Guardium, published on 1 Sep 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM InfoSphere Guardium 8.0, 8.01, and 8.2 could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to download arbitrary files on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 78284.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-3337?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Infosphere Guardium.

How do I fix CVE-2012-3337?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-3337 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2012-3337 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3337 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM InfoSphere Guardium

• CVE-2013-0490 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.2
• CVE-2012-3309 Cross-site request forgery in n/a Medium 6.8
• CVE-2012-3341 Cross-site scripting in InfoSphere Guardium Medium 6.4
• CVE-2012-3336 SQL injection in InfoSphere Guardium Medium 6.3
• CVE-2012-2204 InfoSphere Guardium aix_ktap module: DoS Medium 5.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-vj6v-j788-xf8c.