CVE-2018-1797

State: Published
Severity: 6.3 Medium
Published: Nov 16, 2018
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Dec 13, 2017

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 using Enterprise bundle Archives (EBA) could allow a local attacker to traverse directories on the system. By persuading a victim to extract a specially-crafted ZIP archive containing "dot dot slash" sequences (../), an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to write to arbitrary files on the system. Note: This vulnerability is known as "Zip-Slip". IBM X-Force ID: 149427.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	6.3 Medium	CVSS:3.0/A:N/AC:L/AV:L/C:N/I:H/PR:N/S:C/UI:R/E:U/RC:C/RL:O	ibm

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
WebSphere Application ServerIBM	7.0Affected 8.0Affected 8.5Affected 9.0Affected

References

ibm-websphere-cve20181797-file-write(149427)vdb-entry
105982vdb-entry
1042146vdb-entry
https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10730699

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