CVE-2024-5018 (GCVE-0-2024-5018)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-25 20:27 – Updated: 2024-08-01 20:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
WhatsUp Gold LoadUsingBasePath Directory Traversal Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Summary
In WhatsUp Gold versions released before 2023.1.3, an unauthenticated Path Traversal vulnerability exists Wug.UI.Areas.Wug.Controllers.SessionController.LoadNMScript. This allows allows reading of any file from the applications web-root directory .
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-26 17:44 UTC
CWE
- CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.progress.com/network-monitoring | product |
| https://community.progress.com/s/article/WhatsUp-… | vendor-advisory |
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progress Software Corporation | WhatsUp Gold |
Affected:
2023.1.0 , < 2023.1.3
(semver)
|
guessed | |
| progress | whatsup_gold |
Affected:
2023.1.0 , < 2023.1.3
(semver)
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- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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