CVE-2019-4674 Path traversal in Security Identity Manager

What is CVE-2019-4674?

CVE-2019-4674 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in IBM Security Identity Manager, published on 4 Feb 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Security Identity Manager 7.0.1 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: 171510.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-4674?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Security Identity Manager.

How do I fix CVE-2019-4674?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-4674 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-2019-4674 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-4674 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Security Identity Manager

• CVE-2018-1969 File upload in Security Identity Manager Critical 9.0
• CVE-2018-1453 File upload in Security Identity Manager High 8.8
• CVE-2016-0335 Cross-site request forgery in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2014-6106 Cross-site request forgery in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2019-4561 Deserialization in Security Identity Manager High 8.0

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-pc78-66gw-7grv.