CVE-2013-2988 (GCVE-0-2013-2988)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-08-27 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 15:52
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Summary
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the server in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) 8.4.1, 10.1, 10.1.1, 10.2, and 10.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to read files by leveraging the Report Author privilege, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-2978.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
ibm
References
Date Public
2013-08-21 00:00
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