CVE-2015-6940

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Published 2015-09-22 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

The 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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
pentaho	data_integration	`4.3`
pentaho	data_integration	`4.4`
pentaho	data_integration	`5.0`
pentaho	data_integration	`5.1`
pentaho	data_integration	`5.2`
pentaho	business_analytics	`4.5`
pentaho	business_analytics	`4.8`
pentaho	business_analytics	`5.0`
pentaho	business_analytics	`5.1`
pentaho	business_analytics	`5.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.