CVE-2026-17482 (GCVE-0-2026-17482)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 20:39 – Updated: 2026-08-13 20:39
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
IBM Documentation Offline is vulnerable to information disclosure, session forgery and remote code execution
Summary
IBM Documentation Offline 1.0.0 through 1.4.1 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code due to improper control of file paths.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- CWE-73 - External Control of File Name or Path
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7283484 | vendor-advisorypatch |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBM | Documentation Offline |
Affected:
1.0.0 , ≤ 1.4.1
(semver)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:documentation_offline:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:documentation_offline:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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