CVE-2018-1649

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-10-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

IBM QRadar Incident Forensics 7.2 and 7.3 could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to view arbitrary files on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 144655.

Affected products

IBM QRadar Incident Forensics: from 7.2.0 through 7.2.8; from 7.3.0 through 7.3.1; 7.2.8-patch1, 7.2.8-patch13, 7.2.8-patch8, 7.3.1-patch3, 7.3.1-patch4

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/144655
https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10729703
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/144655
https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10729703

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