CVE-2011-1359: IBM WebSphere Application Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the administration console in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.1 before 6.1.0.41, 7.0 before 7.0.0.19, and 8.0 before 8.0.0.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the URI.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Application Server: version 6.1 only; version 6.1.0 only; version 6.1.0.0 only; version 6.1.0.1 only; version 6.1.0.2 only; version 6.1.0.3 only; …

Published 2011-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.