Vulnerability · Published Feb 20, 2025 · Assigned by ibm

CVE-2024-49779IBM OpenPages cross-site request forgery

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site request forgery in OpenPages with Watson from IBM. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 11% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 88.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
IBM	OpenPages with Watson	8.39.0

Weakness: CWE-352 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7183541 vendor-advisory, patch