CVE-2018-5445 Path traversal in Advantech WebAccess/SCADA

What is CVE-2018-5445?

CVE-2018-5445 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Advantech WebAccess/SCADA, published on 25 Jan 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A Path Traversal issue was discovered in Advantech WebAccess/SCADA versions prior to V8.2_20170817. An attacker has read access to files within the directory structure of the target device.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-5445?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Advantech Webaccess\/Scada.

How do I fix CVE-2018-5445?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-5445 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2018-5445 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5445 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Advantech WebAccess/SCADA

• CVE-2023-1437 CVE-2023-1437 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-32943 Memory corruption in WebAccess/SCADA Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-6519 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-6523 SQL injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-22669 Privilege escalation in Advantech WebAccess/SCADA High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-3724-q3rh-j82p.