CVE-2009-0880

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 31.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-03-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the CIM server in IBM Director before 5.20.3 Service Update 2 on Windows allows remote attackers to load and execute arbitrary local DLL code via a .. (dot dot) in a /CIMListener/ URI in an M-POST request.

Affected products

IBM Director: through 5.20.3; 3.1.1, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.20, 4.21 (+8)

References

http://osvdb.org/52616
http://secunia.com/advisories/34212
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501639/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34065
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0656
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49286
https://www.sec-consult.com/files/20090305-2_IBM_director_privilege_escalation.txt
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/reg/download.do?source=dmp&S_PKG=director_x_520&S_TACT=sms&lang=en_US&cp=UTF-8
http://osvdb.org/52616
http://secunia.com/advisories/34212
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501639/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34065

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