CVE-2013-2988 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2013-2988?

CVE-2013-2988 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in n/a, published on 27 Aug 2013. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the server in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) 8.4.1, 10.1, 10.1.1, 10.2, and 10.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to read files by leveraging the Report Author privilege, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-2978.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-2988?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Cognos Business Intelligence.

How do I fix CVE-2013-2988?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-2988 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-2013-2988 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-2988 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2012-4858 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2016-8960 Privilege escalation in Cognos Business Intelligence High 8.8
• CVE-2016-3036 Memory corruption in Cognos TM1 High 7.5
• CVE-2017-1764 Information disclosure in Cognos Business Intelligence High 7.0
• CVE-2016-0254 XML external entity in Cognos Business Intelligence Medium 6.5

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-4j94-jg47-hpc4.