HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-5810

Webtransactions vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
3.8%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
WBPublish (aka WBPublish.exe) in Fujitsu-Siemens WebTransactions 7.0, 7.1, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in input that is sent through HTTP and improperly used during temporary session data cleanup, possibly related to (1) directory names, (2) template names, and (3) session IDs.
Affected vendor
Fujitsu Siemens
Affected product
Webtransactions
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2009-01-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-5810

  • Confirm whether Fujitsu Siemens Webtransactions is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-5810.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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