CVE-2017-1279 Path traversal in Tealeaf Customer Experience

What is CVE-2017-1279?

CVE-2017-1279 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience, published on 26 Jan 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience 8.7, 8.8, and 9.0.2 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 view arbitrary files on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 124757.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-1279?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Tealeaf Customer Experience.

How do I fix CVE-2017-1279?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-1279 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-2017-1279 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-1279 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience

• CVE-2017-1204 Hardcoded credentials in Tealeaf Customer Experience Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-4988 Path traversal in n/a High 8.6
• CVE-2016-2983 Information disclosure in Tealeaf Customer Experience High 8.1
• CVE-2016-5996 Weak cryptography in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2016-5977 Open redirect in n/a Medium 6.8

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-379v-m5cr-x8xw.