CVE-2024-49779 IBM OpenPages cross-site request forgery

What is CVE-2024-49779?

CVE-2024-49779 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM OpenPages with Watson, published on 20 Feb 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3 and 9.0 IBM OpenPages

could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper validation and management of authentication cookies. By modifying the CSRF token and Session Id cookie parameters using the cookies of another user, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass security restrictions and gain unauthorized access to the vulnerable application.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-49779?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Openpages With Watson.

How do I fix CVE-2024-49779?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-49779 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-49779 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-49779 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM OpenPages with Watson

• CVE-2023-40683 IBM OpenPages with Watson privilege escalation High 8.8
• CVE-2021-29907 File upload in OpenPages with Watson High 8.8
• CVE-2024-49781 IBM OpenPages XML external entity injection High 7.1
• CVE-2024-49782 IBM OpenPages improper certificate validation Medium 6.8
• CVE-2023-38738 IBM OpenPages with Watson information disclosure Medium 6.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-28j5-qmvp-g845.