CVE-2024-49779 (GCVE-0-2024-49779)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-20 12:06
Modified
2025-08-15 14:50
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM OpenPages with Watson Version: 8.3
Version: 9.0
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:openpages_with_watson:8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:openpages_with_watson:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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