What is CVE-2018-16739?

CVE-2018-16739 is a high-severity vulnerability in Abus Tvip 10000, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2023-10-26.

How severe is CVE-2018-16739?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Abus Tvip 10000

CVE-2018-16739

An issue was discovered on certain ABUS TVIP devices. Due to a path traversal in /opt/cgi/admin/filewrite, an attacker can write to files, and thus execute code arbitrarily with root privileges.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2023-10-26 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (62.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 62nd percentile — 62.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

sec.maride.cc/posts/abus/ (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
www.ccc.de/en/updates/2019/update-nicht-verfugbar-hersteller-nicht-zu-erreichen (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-16739?: CVE-2018-16739 is a high-severity vulnerability in Abus Tvip 10000, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2023-10-26.
How severe is CVE-2018-16739?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.