IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3 & 9.0: Chat Session Persists after Logout
CVE-2024-49344 Published on February 20, 2025

IBM OpenPages session fixation
IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3 and 9.0 IBM OpenPages with Watson Assistant chat feature enabled the application establishes a session when a user logs in and uses chat, but the chat session is still left active after logout.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2024-49344 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality, a small impact on integrity and availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
LOW
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
LOW
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
NONE

Weakness Type

Session Fixation

Authenticating a user, or otherwise establishing a new user session, without invalidating any existing session identifier gives an attacker the opportunity to steal authenticated sessions.


Products Associated with CVE-2024-49344

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Affected Versions

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Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.07%
Percentile
21.97%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.