What is CVE-2018-18552?

CVE-2018-18552 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Serverscheck Monitoring Software, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-10-24.

How severe is CVE-2018-18552?

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

Path Traversal in Serverscheck Monitoring Software

CVE-2018-18552

ServersCheck Monitoring Software through 14.3.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (menu functionality loss) by creating an LNK file that points to a second LNK file, if this second LNK file is associated with a Start menu. Ultimately, this behavior comes from a Directory Traversal bug (via the sensor_details.html id parameter) that allows creating empty files in arbitrary directories.

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:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Serverscheck Monitoring_software
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-18552?: CVE-2018-18552 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Serverscheck Monitoring Software, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-10-24.
How severe is CVE-2018-18552?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.