{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-4178 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2019-4178 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2019-4178 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Ibm Cognos Analytics, published on 15 Apr 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2019-4178 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2019-4178 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Ibm Cognos Analytics, published on 15 Apr 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-4178 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Ibm Cognos Analytics. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-4178/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-4178/index.md)","id":"CVE-2019-4178","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-4178/index.md","name":"CVE-2019-4178","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-4h77-8rwv-vmxh"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read","data_modify"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"IBM Cognos Analytics","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Remote attackers can traverse directories to read or write arbitrary files in IBM Cognos Analytics via crafted URL requests.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"ibm","cpe":[{"product":"cognos_analytics","vendor":"ibm"}],"cvss":{"score":6.4,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.0/I:H/C:L/UI:N/AC:H/PR:L/A:L/S:U/AV:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-22","name":"Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory"}],"description":"IBM Cognos Analytics 11 could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request to write or view arbitrary files on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 158919.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Path traversal in Cognos Analytics","id":"CVE-2019-4178","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"ibm:cognos_analytics","products":["ibm:cognos_analytics"],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2019"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Denial of service in Cognos Analytics","id":"CVE-2019-4183"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Information disclosure in Cognos Controller","id":"CVE-2019-4177"},"products":["Cognos Analytics"],"published":"2019-04-15","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Missing authorization in Cognos Analytics","id":"CVE-2020-4561","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-05-31"},{"cvss_score":9,"headline":"IBM Cognos Analytics expression language injection","id":"CVE-2024-51466","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-12-20"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Code injection in Cognos Analytics","id":"CVE-2021-29679","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-10-15"},{"cvss_score":8.6,"headline":"IBM Cognos Analytics log injection","id":"CVE-2024-25047","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-05-02"},{"cvss_score":8.3,"headline":"IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0 and 11.1 is vulnerable to a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data.","id":"CVE-2018-1721","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-11-09"},{"cvss_score":8.2,"headline":"XML external entity in Cognos Analytics","id":"CVE-2020-4300","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-05-31"},{"cvss_score":8.2,"headline":"XML external entity in Cognos Analytics","id":"CVE-2020-4377","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-08-03"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-17","vendors":["IBM"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can traverse directories to read or write arbitrary files in IBM Cognos Analytics via crafted URL requests.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-4178/"}