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CVE-2019-4178

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.1)—

IBM Cognos Analytics 11 could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request to write or view arbitrary files on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 158919.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

IBM — Cognos Analytics

CWEs

References

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