CVE-2024-49779 (GCVE-0-2024-49779)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-20 12:06 – Updated: 2025-08-15 14:50
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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.
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)
Assigner
ibm
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM OpenPages with Watson Affected: 8.3
Affected: 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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