CVE-2017-1723: IBM Qradar Incident Forensics

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Security QRadar SIEM 7.2 and 7.3 could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to view arbitrary files on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 134812.

Affected products

• IBM Qradar Incident Forensics: from 7.2.0, before 7.2.8 (fixed in 7.2.8); version 7.2.8 only; version 7.3.0 only; version 7.3.1 only
• IBM Qradar Network Insights: from 7.2.0, before 7.2.8 (fixed in 7.2.8); version 7.2.8 only; version 7.3.0 only; version 7.3.1 only
• IBM Qradar Security Information And Event Manager: from 7.2.0, before 7.2.8 (fixed in 7.2.8); version 7.2.8 only; version 7.3.0 only; version 7.3.1 only

Published 2018-04-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.