CVE-2020-4934 Path traversal in Content Navigator

What is CVE-2020-4934?

CVE-2020-4934 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in IBM Content Navigator, published on 2 Feb 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Content Navigator 3.0.CD 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: 191752.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-4934?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Content Navigator.

How do I fix CVE-2020-4934?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4934 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-2020-4934 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4934 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Content Navigator

• CVE-2018-1364 XML external entity in Content Navigator High 8.2
• CVE-2018-1366 Other in Content Navigator High 7.8
• CVE-2022-43581 IBM Content Navigator code execution High 7.5
• CVE-2019-4092 Open redirect in Content Navigator Medium 6.8
• CVE-2021-29714 Denial of service in Content Navigator Medium 6.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-5v3r-grx9-p339.