Path Traversal in Microstrategy Web Services

CVE-2018-6885

An issue was discovered in MicroStrategy Web Services (the Microsoft Office plugin) before 10.4 Hotfix 7, and before 10.11. The vulnerability is unauthenticated and leads to access to the asset files with the MicroStrategy user privileges. (This includes the credentials to access the admin dashboard which may lead to RCE.) The path traversal is located in a SOAP request in the web service component.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published · last modified .

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (72.0th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 72nd percentile — 72.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2018-6885: held from 0.014 to 0.014.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-6885?
CVE-2018-6885 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Microstrategy Web Services, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-05-14.
How severe is CVE-2018-6885?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.