What is CVE-2017-12586?

CVE-2017-12586 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Slims Akasia, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-08-06.

How severe is CVE-2017-12586?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Slims Akasia

CVE-2017-12586

SLiMS 8 Akasia through 8.3.1 has an arbitrary file reading issue because of directory traversal in the url parameter to admin/help.php. It can be exploited by remote authenticated librarian users.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2017-08-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.027 (85.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 85.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.027 · newest: 0.027 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Slims Akasia — versions 8.0, 8.1, 8.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

github.com/slims/slims8_akasia/issues/48 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-12586?: CVE-2017-12586 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Slims Akasia, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-08-06.
How severe is CVE-2017-12586?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.