{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2019-17662 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2019-17662 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2019-17662 is a critical path traversal vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Oct 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2019-17662 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2019-17662 is a critical path traversal vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Oct 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2019-17662 exists.\n\nAffected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-17662/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-17662/index.md)","id":"CVE-2019-17662","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-17662/index.md","name":"CVE-2019-17662","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-23gm-hjpg-qfp3"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read","account_takeover"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"VNC server","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can read the cleartext password file via directory traversal to compromise the VNC server, even when authentication is enabled.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"thinvnc","vendor":"cybelsoft"}],"cvss":{"score":9.8,"severity":"critical","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-522","name":"Insufficiently Protected Credentials"},{"id":"CWE-22","name":"Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory"}],"description":"ThinVNC 1.0b1 is vulnerable to arbitrary file read, which leads to a compromise of the VNC server. The vulnerability exists even when authentication is turned on during the deployment of the VNC server. The password for authentication is stored in cleartext in a file that can be read via a ../../ThinVnc.ini directory traversal attack vector.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2019-10-16","github_poc":7,"max_poc_stars":19,"metasploit":1,"nuclei":1,"refs":[{"date":"2021-08-31T19:30:09Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/MuirlandOracle/CVE-2019-17662","stars":19,"title":"Exploit code for CVE-2019-17662"},{"date":"2021-10-02T15:57:11Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/whokilleddb/CVE-2019-17662","stars":2,"title":"Exploit for CVE-2019-17662 (ThinVNC 1.0b1)"},{"date":"2022-09-13T09:53:45Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/bl4ck574r/CVE-2019-17662","stars":2,"title":null},{"date":"2021-10-01T04:27:28Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/kxisxr/Bash-Script-CVE-2019-17662","stars":1,"title":"ThinVNC 1.0b1 is vulnerable to arbitrary file read, which leads to a compromise of the VNC server. The vulnerability exists even when authentication is turned on during the deployment of the VNC server. The password for authentication is stored in cleartext in a file that can be read via a ../../ThinVnc.ini directory traversal attack vector."},{"date":"2021-10-18T08:26:47Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/rajendrakumaryadav/CVE-2019-17662-Exploit","stars":1,"title":"Exploit For CVE-2019-17662"},{"date":"2023-05-19T03:12:44Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/thomas-osgood/CVE-2019-17662","stars":1,"title":"Golang implementation of ThinVNC exploit CVE-2019-17662. For educational purposes only."},{"date":"2019-10-16","kind":"metasploit","ref":"auxiliary/scanner/http/thinvnc_traversal","stars":null,"title":"ThinVNC Directory Traversal"},{"date":"2019-10-17","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"47519","stars":null,"title":"ThinVNC 1.0b1 - Authentication Bypass"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-17662","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2019"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-17663"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-17661"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2019-10-16","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Auth bypass in ThinVNC","id":"CVE-2022-25226","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-04-18"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"BSD-3-Clause","name":"Metasploit"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-05","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Attackers can read the cleartext password file via directory traversal to compromise the VNC server, even when authentication is enabled.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-17662/"}