MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2014-7237

Twiki vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
20.1%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
lib/TWiki/Sandbox.pm in TWiki 6.0.0 and earlier, when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and upload files with restricted names via a null byte (%00) in a filename to bin/upload.cgi, as demonstrated using .htaccess to execute arbitrary code.
Affected vendor
Twiki
Affected product
Twiki
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Published
2014-10-16

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 20.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Twiki Twiki is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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