CVE-2024-49780: IBM Openpages With Watson

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.6% 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 traverse directories on the system. An attacker with privileges to perform Import Configuration could send a specially crafted http request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) in the file name parameter used in Import Configuration to write files to arbitrary locations outside of the specified directory and possibly overwrite arbitrary files.

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.