What is CVE-2017-17992?

CVE-2017-17992 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Iwcnetwork Biometric Shift Employee Management System, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-12-30.

How severe is CVE-2017-17992?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2017-17992 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Path Traversal in Iwcnetwork Biometric Shift Employee Management System

CVE-2017-17992

Biometric Shift Employee Management System allows Arbitrary File Download via directory traversal sequences in the index.php form_file_name parameter in a download_form action.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.018 (75.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Iwcnetwork Biometric_shift_employee_management_system — versions 4.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cvemon

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-17992?: CVE-2017-17992 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Iwcnetwork Biometric Shift Employee Management System, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-12-30.
How severe is CVE-2017-17992?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2017-17992 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.