CVE-2018-7073 Path traversal in HPE Moonshot Provisioning Manager

What is CVE-2018-7073?

CVE-2018-7073 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 6 Aug 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A local arbitrary file modification vulnerability was identified in HPE Moonshot Provisioning Manager prior to v1.24.

Weakness: CWE-668

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-7073?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Hp Moonshot Provisioning Manager.

How do I fix CVE-2018-7073?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-7073 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-2018-7073 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-7073 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-89mx-74w9-vr97.