CVE-2024-49779: IBM Openpages With Watson

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3 and 9.0 IBM OpenPages could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper validation and management of authentication cookies. By modifying the CSRF token and Session Id cookie parameters using the cookies of another user, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass security restrictions and gain unauthorized access to the vulnerable application.

Affected products

• IBM Openpages With Watson: from 8.3, before 8.3.0.3 (fixed in 8.3.0.3); from 9.0, before 9.0.0.5 (fixed in 9.0.0.5)

Published 2025-02-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.