What is CVE-2018-8909?

CVE-2018-8909 is a high-severity vulnerability in Wire, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-03-22.

How severe is CVE-2018-8909?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Wire

CVE-2018-8909

The Wire application before 2018-03-07 for Android allows attackers to write to pathnames outside of the downloads directory via a ../ in a filename of a received file, related to AssetService.scala.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.020 (78.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Wire
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-2018-8909?: CVE-2018-8909 is a high-severity vulnerability in Wire, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-03-22.
How severe is CVE-2018-8909?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.