CVE-2015-6940

Summary

CVECVE-2015-6940
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-09-22 15:59:00 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionThe GetResource servlet in Pentaho Business Analytics (BA) Suite 4.5.x, 4.8.x, and 5.0.x through 5.2.x and Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) Suite 4.3.x, 4.4.x, and 5.0.x through 5.2.x does not restrict access to files in the pentaho-solutions/system folder, which allows remote attackers to obtain passwords and other sensitive information via a file name in the resource parameter.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-200 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pentaho Business Analytics 4.5 All All All
Application Pentaho Business Analytics 4.8 All All All
Application Pentaho Business Analytics 5.0 All All All
Application Pentaho Business Analytics 5.1 All All All
Application Pentaho Business Analytics 5.2 All All All
Application Pentaho Data Integration 4.3 All All All
Application Pentaho Data Integration 4.4 All All All
Application Pentaho Data Integration 5.0 All All All
Application Pentaho Data Integration 5.1 All All All
Application Pentaho Data Integration 5.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
The page you were looking for doesn't exist – Lumada Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.pentaho.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Pentaho 5.2.x BA Suite / PDI Information Disclosure ≈ Packet Storm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 packetstormsecurity.com Exploit
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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