CVE-2015-1977

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-07-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Web Administration tool in IBM Tivoli Directory Server (ITDS) before 6.1.0.74-ISS-ISDS-IF0074, 6.2.x before 6.2.0.50-ISS-ISDS-IF0050, and 6.3.x before 6.3.0.43-ISS-ISDS-IF0043 and IBM Security Directory Server (ISDS) before 6.3.1.18-ISS-ISDS-IF0018 and 6.4.x before 6.4.0.9-ISS-ISDS-IF0009 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a URL.

Affected products

IBM Security Directory Server: 6.4.0, 6.4.0.0, 6.4.0.1, 6.4.0.2, 6.4.0.3, 6.4.0.4 (+23)
IBM Tivoli Directory Server: 6.2.0, 6.2.0.0, 6.2.0.1, 6.2.0.2, 6.2.0.3, 6.2.0.4 (+156)

References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21986452
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21986452

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