CVE-2015-1884 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1884?

CVE-2015-1884 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Ibm Business Process Manager, published on 28 Jun 2015. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) 7.5.x through 7.5.1.2, 8.0.x through 8.0.1.3, 8.5.0 through 8.5.0.1, and 8.5.5 through 8.5.5.0 and WebSphere Lombardi Edition (WLE) 7.2 through 7.2.0.5 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a crafted internationalization-file URL.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1884?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Ibm Business Process Manager, Ibm Websphere.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1884?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-1884 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-2015-1884 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1884 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Business Process Manager

• CVE-2015-1961 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.0
• CVE-2017-1769 Cross-site request forgery in Business Process Manager High 8.8
• CVE-2017-1539 Privilege escalation in Business Process Manager Advanced High 8.8
• CVE-2017-1527 XML external entity in Business Process Manager Advanced High 8.1
• CVE-2015-7441 Weak cryptography in n/a Medium 6.8

All Ibm Business Process Manager vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-33cg-4pq4-gv4q.