What is CVE-2017-12815?

CVE-2017-12815 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Bomgar Remote Support, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 10.0/10. Published 2018-03-26.

How severe is CVE-2017-12815?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 10.0 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Bomgar Remote Support

CVE-2017-12815

Analysis of the Bomgar Remote Support Portal JavaStart.jar Applet 52790 and earlier revealed that it is vulnerable to a path traversal vulnerability. The archive can be downloaded from a given Bomgar Remote Support Portal deployment at https://domain/api/content/JavaStart.jar and is callable from an arbitrary website using <object> and/or <appletHTML> tags. Successful exploitation results in file creation/modification/deletion in the operating system and with privileges of the user that ran the Java applet.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.020 (78.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 10.0 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Bomgar Remote_support
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-12815?: CVE-2017-12815 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Bomgar Remote Support, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 10.0/10. Published 2018-03-26.
How severe is CVE-2017-12815?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 10.0 out of 10.