CVE-2025-0823 IBM MQ path traversal
Remote attackers can traverse directories via crafted URLs to view arbitrary files on IBM Cognos Analytics systems.
- 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-2025-0823?
CVE-2025-0823 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Ibm Cognos Analytics, published on 28 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.0 through 11.2.4 FP5 and 12.0.0 through 12.0.4 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.
Weakness: CWE-22
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-0823?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ibm Cognos Analytics.
How do I fix CVE-2025-0823?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-0823 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-0823 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-0823 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Cognos Analytics
- CVE-2020-4561 Missing authorization in Cognos Analytics
- CVE-2024-51466 IBM Cognos Analytics expression language injection
- CVE-2021-29679 Code injection in Cognos Analytics
- CVE-2024-25047 IBM Cognos Analytics log injection
- CVE-2018-1721 IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0 and 11.1 is vulnerable to a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-9pqw-9742-qhjm.