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)

EPSS: 0.027 (84.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Slims Akasia — versions 8.0, 8.1, 8.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, 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.