What is CVE-2018-17798?

CVE-2018-17798 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zzcms, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-09-30.

How severe is CVE-2018-17798?

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

Path Traversal in Zzcms

CVE-2018-17798

An issue was discovered in zzcms 8.3. user/ztconfig.php allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via an absolute pathname in the oldimg parameter in an action=modify request. This can be leveraged for database access by deleting install.lock.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.012 (64.2th 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:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Zzcms — versions 8.3
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-17798?: CVE-2018-17798 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zzcms, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-09-30.
How severe is CVE-2018-17798?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.