An Absolute Path Traversal issue was discovered in Advantech WebAccess Version 8.1 and prior.

Published 9 y ago 2017-05-06 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.1

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

1.5%

percentile 75%

Public exploits

none known

An Absolute Path Traversal issue was discovered in Advantech WebAccess Version 8.1 and prior. The absolute path traversal vulnerability has been identified, which may allow an attacker to traverse the file system to access restricted files or directories.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.54% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	7.1	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H`
NVD	2.0	5.5	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P`

Affected products

n/a Advantech WebAccess

Classification

Weakness

CWE-36 Absolute Path Traversal
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

securityfocus.com /bid/98311 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSA-17-124-03 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-7929
NVD: CVE-2017-7929

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