CVE-2018-0420

Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Software Directory Traversal Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Oct 17, 2018
Updated: Nov 26, 2024
Reserved: Nov 27, 2017

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based interface of Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to view sensitive information. The issue is due to improper sanitization of user-supplied input in HTTP request parameters that describe filenames and pathnames. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using directory traversal techniques to submit a path to a desired file location. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to view system files on the targeted device, which may contain sensitive information.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	cisco

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC)Cisco	n/aAffected

References

105671vdb-entry
20181017 Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Software Directory Traversal Vulnerabilityvendor-advisory
1041926vdb-entry

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