CVE-2020-4776 Path traversal in Curam SPM

What is CVE-2020-4776?

CVE-2020-4776 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in IBM Curam SPM, published on 12 Oct 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A path traversal vulnerability may impact IBM Curam Social Program Management 7.0.9 and 7.0.10, which could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted file path in URL request to view arbitrary files on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 189154.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-4776?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Curam Social Program Management.

How do I fix CVE-2020-4776?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4776 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-2020-4776 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4776 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Curam SPM

• CVE-2016-6111 XML external entity in Cram Social Program Management Critical 9.1
• CVE-2014-8903 Code injection in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2020-4779 Auth bypass in Curam SPM High 8.1
• CVE-2020-4772 XML external entity in Curam SPM High 7.1
• CVE-2018-1654 Open redirect in Curam Social Program Management Medium 6.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-5wqj-3mhr-wm77.