CVE-2015-6940: Pentaho Business Analytics

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The GetResource servlet in Pentaho Business Analytics (BA) Suite 4.5.x, 4.8.x, and 5.0.x through 5.2.x and Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) Suite 4.3.x, 4.4.x, and 5.0.x through 5.2.x does not restrict access to files in the pentaho-solutions/system folder, which allows remote attackers to obtain passwords and other sensitive information via a file name in the resource parameter.

Affected products

• Pentaho Business Analytics: version 4.5 only; version 4.8 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only
• Pentaho Data Integration: version 4.3 only; version 4.4 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only

Published 2015-09-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.