Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-49780

Medium

Published: 20 February 2025

Published
20 February 2025
Modified
11 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0021 43.4th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-49780 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Ibm Openpages With Watson. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 43.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3 and 9.0 IBM OpenPages could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker with privileges to perform Import Configuration could send a specially crafted http request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../)…

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in the file name parameter used in Import Configuration to write files to arbitrary locations outside of the specified directory and possibly overwrite arbitrary files.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

ibm
openpages with watson
8.3 — 8.3.0.3 · 9.0 — 9.0.0.5

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References