CVE-2009-0880: IBM Director

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 31.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the CIM server in IBM Director before 5.20.3 Service Update 2 on Windows allows remote attackers to load and execute arbitrary local DLL code via a .. (dot dot) in a /CIMListener/ URI in an M-POST request.

Affected products

• IBM Director: up to and including 5.20.3; version 3.1.1 only; version 4.10 only; version 4.11 only; version 4.12 only; version 4.20 only; …

Published 2009-03-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.