Directory traversal in BlackBerry Workspaces Appliance-X and BlackBerry Workspaces vApp - CVE-2017-9367

 

Directory traversal in BlackBerry Workspaces Appliance-X and BlackBerry Workspaces vApp - CVE-2017-9367

Published: October 17, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU8850
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9367
CWE-ID: CWE-22
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: BlackBerry
Affected software:
BlackBerry Workspaces Appliance-X
BlackBerry Workspaces vApp

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to directory traversal. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted POST request, upload a web shell to the server’s webroot, execute arbitrary files, or reveal the content of arbitrary files anywhere on the web server.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.


How to mitigate CVE-2017-9367

Update Appliance-X to version 1.12.0.
Update vApp to version 5.7.2.

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