CVE-2019-4252 Path traversal in Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management

What is CVE-2019-4252?

CVE-2019-4252 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Ibm Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management, published on 27 Jun 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management 6.0 through 6.0.6.1 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: 159883.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-4252?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Ibm Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management, Ibm Rational Doors Next Generation, Ibm Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager, Ibm Rational Quality Manager, Ibm Rational Rhapsody Design Manager, Ibm Rational Software Architect Design Manager and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-4252?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-4252 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-2019-4252 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-4252 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management

• CVE-2014-0862 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-1701 Weak cryptography in Rational Team Concert High 8.8
• CVE-2016-0326 Command injection in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2016-9707 XML external entity in Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management High 8.1
• CVE-2015-7440 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.8

All Ibm Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-mcq8-9jpg-3vg7.