CVE-2017-6805

Mobaxterm vulnerability

CVSS

5.3

EPSS

7.8%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

Directory traversal vulnerability in the TFTP server in MobaXterm Personal Edition 9.4 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a GET command.

Affected vendor

Mobatek

Affected product

Mobaxterm

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Published

2017-03-20

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 7.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Mobatek Mobaxterm is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-6805.
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