IBM OpenPages WS 8.3/9.0 Auth Cookie Bypass (CVE-2024-49779)
CVE-2024-49779 Published on February 20, 2025
IBM OpenPages cross-site request forgery
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-49779 can be exploited with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Session Riding Vulnerability?
The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. When a web server is designed to receive a request from a client without any mechanism for verifying that it was intentionally sent, then it might be possible for an attacker to trick a client into making an unintentional request to the web server which will be treated as an authentic request. This can be done via a URL, image load, XMLHttpRequest, etc. and can result in exposure of data or unintended code execution.
CVE-2024-49779 has been classified to as a Session Riding vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-49779
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Affected Versions
IBM OpenPages with Watson:- Version 8.3 is affected.
- Version 9.0 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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