IBM Planning Analytics Local up to 2.1.14 URL absolute path traversal

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in IBM Planning Analytics Local up to 2.1.14. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component URL Handler. This manipulation causes absolute path traversal. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-36357. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in IBM Planning Analytics Local up to 2.1.14. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component URL Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a absolute path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-36. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize absolute path sequences such as "/abs/path" that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

IBM Planning Analytics Local 2.1.0 through 2.1.14 could allow a remote authenticated user to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially crafted URL request containing absolute path sequences to view, read, or write arbitrary files on the system.

The advisory is shared at ibm.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-36357 since 04/15/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/17/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• IBM

Name

• Planning Analytics Local

Version

• 2.1.0
• 2.1.1
• 2.1.2
• 2.1.3
• 2.1.4
• 2.1.5
• 2.1.6
• 2.1.7
• 2.1.8
• 2.1.9
• 2.1.10
• 2.1.11
• 2.1.12
• 2.1.13
• 2.1.14

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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