THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2017-18024
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2017-18024

Avantfax vulnerability

CVSS
6.1
EPSS
4.5%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
AvantFAX 3.3.3 has XSS via an arbitrary parameter name to the default URI, as demonstrated by a parameter whose name contains a SCRIPT element and whose value is 1.
Affected vendor
Avantfax
Affected product
Avantfax
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Published
2018-01-10

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 4.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-18024

  • Confirm whether Avantfax Avantfax is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-18024.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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