CVE-2019-4582 Path traversal in Maximo Asset Management

What is CVE-2019-4582?

CVE-2019-4582 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Ibm Maximo Asset Management, published on 13 Aug 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Maximo Asset Management 7.6.0 and 7.6.1 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: 167288.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-4582?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Maximo Asset Management.

How do I fix CVE-2019-4582?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-4582 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-2019-4582 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-4582 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Maximo Asset Management

• CVE-2020-4493 Auth bypass in Maximo Asset Management Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-1175 SQL injection in Maximo Asset Management Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4521 Deserialization in Maximo Asset Management High 8.8
• CVE-2018-1524 Hardcoded credentials in Maximo Asset Management High 8.8
• CVE-2018-1414 SQL injection in Maximo Asset Management High 8.8

All Ibm Maximo Asset Management vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-ph7p-9vqc-697p.