CVE-2024-49348 IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation incorrect privilege assignment
Attackers can gain unauthorized access to user queries by reassigning comment tasks via API, violating organizational data context restrictions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-49348?
CVE-2024-49348 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, published on 5 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation 18.0.0, 18.0.1, 18.0.2, 19.0.1, 19.0.2, 19.0.3, 20.0.1, 20.0.2, 20.0.3, 21.0.1, 21.0.2, 21.0.3, 22.0.1, and 22.0.2
allows restricting access to organizational data to valid contexts. The fact that tasks of type comment can be reassigned via API implicitly grants access to user queries in an unexpected context.
Weakness: CWE-266
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-49348?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ibm Cloud Pak for Business Automation.
How do I fix CVE-2024-49348?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-49348 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-49348 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-49348 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
- CVE-2023-35899 IBM Cloud Pak for Automation CSV injection
- CVE-2025-36092 IBM Business Automation Insights improper input validation
- CVE-2025-36023 IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation security bypass
- CVE-2025-1838 IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation denial of service
- CVE-2023-38367 IBM Cloud Pak for Automation authentication bypass
Sources
Also known as GHSA-v3q6-3rrv-r75p.