{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5016 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5016 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2020-5016 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Ibm Websphere Application Server, published on 10 Mar 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-5016 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-5016 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Ibm Websphere Application Server, published on 10 Mar 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5016 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Ibm Websphere Application Server. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5016/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5016/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-5016","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5016/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-5016","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-whgp-r3rj-vmxr"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"WebSphere Application Server","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Remote attackers can read arbitrary XML files via path traversal when application security is disabled in IBM WebSphere Application Server.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"ibm","cpe":[{"product":"websphere_application_server","vendor":"ibm"}],"cvss":{"score":5.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.0/A:N/I:N/PR:L/C:H/S:U/AC:H/AV:N/UI:N/RC:C/E:U/RL:O","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-22","name":"Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory"}],"description":"IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. When application security is disabled and JAX-RPC applications are present, an attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing \"dot dot\" sequences (/../) to view arbitrary xml files on the system. This does not occur if Application security is enabled. IBM X-Force ID: 193556.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Path traversal in WebSphere Application Server","id":"CVE-2020-5016","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"ibm:websphere_application_server","products":["ibm:websphere_application_server"],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2020"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Information disclosure in Spectrum Protect Plus","id":"CVE-2020-5017"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in Elastic Storage Server","id":"CVE-2020-5015"},"products":["WebSphere Application Server"],"published":"2021-03-10","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2015-1920","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2015-05-20"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Other in n/a","id":"CVE-2013-0462","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2013-01-27"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Security feature bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2011-1377","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2012-01-15"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Other in n/a","id":"CVE-2010-3186","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2010-08-30"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-1899","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2009-06-03"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Other in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-1901","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2009-06-03"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Other in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-1172","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2009-03-31"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-17","vendors":["IBM"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can read arbitrary XML files via path traversal when application security is disabled in IBM WebSphere Application Server.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5016/"}