CVE-2010-2896: IBM Filenet Content Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM FileNet Content Manager (CM) 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.5.0, and 4.5.1 before FP4 does not properly manage the InheritParentPermissions setting during an upgrade from 3.x, which might allow attackers to bypass intended folder permissions via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• IBM Filenet Content Manager: version 4.0.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.5.0 only; version 4.5.1 only

Published 2010-07-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.