# CVE-2020-5001: IBM Financial Transaction Manager path traversal

> Remote attackers can traverse directories to view arbitrary files on IBM Financial Transaction Manager servers.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 1 Mar 2023
- **Updated:** 6 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8gf6-h6wm-2vf6

## What is CVE-2020-5001?

CVE-2020-5001 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Ibm Financial Transaction Manager, published on 1 Mar 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

IBM Financial Transaction Manager 3.2.0 through 3.2.7 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: 192953.

Weakness: CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5001?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Financial Transaction Manager.

## How do I fix CVE-2020-5001?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5001 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2020-5001 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5001 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Financial Transaction Manager

- [CVE-2026-18169](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-18169/): IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) is Impacted by Multiple Vulnerabilities (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2026-18162](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-18162/): IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) is Impacted by Multiple Vulnerabilities (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2026-18163](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-18163/): IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) is Impacted by Multiple Vulnerabilities (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2026-18872](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-18872/): IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) is Impacted by Multiple Vulnerabilities (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2026-17635](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-17635/): IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) is Impacted by Multiple Vulnerabilities (critical 9.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-5001 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2020-5001 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Ibm Financial Transaction Manager, published on 1 Mar 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5001 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Ibm Financial Transaction Manager. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5001/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5001/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-5001
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5001
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-5001

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