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CVE-2020-5016

IBM / WebSphere Application Server PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. When application security is disabled and JAX-RPC applications are present, an attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to view arbitrary xml files on the system. This does not occur if Application security is enabled. IBM X-Force ID: 193556.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
IBM / WebSphere Application Serveraffected 7.0; affected 8.0; affected 8.5; affected 9.0

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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