# CVE-2021-45446: Pentaho Business Analytics Server - Exposure of Information Through Directory Listing

> Attackers can view the complete index of resources in the Home folder due to improper inheritance of hidden properties, exposing sensitive directory listings.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/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:** 2 Nov 2022
- **Updated:** 2 May 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jgwp-h4gx-xm93

## What is CVE-2021-45446?

CVE-2021-45446 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server, published on 2 Nov 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability in 

Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server versions before 9.2.0.2 and 
8.3.0.25 does not cascade the hidden property to the children of the Home folder.  This directory listing provides an attacker with the complete index of all the resources located 
inside the directory.

Weakness: CWE-281 (Improper Preservation of Permissions), CWE-548 (Exposure of Information Through Directory Listing)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-45446?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Hitachi Vantara Pentaho.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-45446?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-45446 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-45446 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-45446 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server

- [CVE-2021-34684](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-34684/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-31599](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-31599/): Code injection in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2022-4815](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4815/): Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server - Deserialization of Untrusted Data (high 8.0)
- [CVE-2021-45447](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-45447/): Information disclosure in Pentaho Business Analytics Server (high 7.7)
- [CVE-2021-45448](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-45448/): Path traversal in Pentaho Business Analytics Server (high 7.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-45446 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-45446 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server, published on 2 Nov 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-45446 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server. 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-2021-45446/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-45446/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-45446
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45446
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-45446

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-45446/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.