Path Traversal in Watchfire Appscan
CVE-2008-2015
Multiple absolute path traversal vulnerabilities in certain ActiveX controls in WatchFire AppScan 7.0 allow remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the argument to the (1) CompactSave and (2) SaveSession method in one control, and the (3) saveRecordedExploreToFile method in a different control. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.083 (94.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 94.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.083 · newest: 0.083 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Watchfire Appscan — versions 7.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5496 (exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/28940 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42077 (vdb-entry)