HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2018-1299

Allura vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.0%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
In Apache Allura before 1.8.0, unauthenticated attackers may retrieve arbitrary files through the Allura web application. Some webservers used with Allura, such as Nginx, Apache/mod_wsgi or paster may prevent the attack from succeeding. Others, such as gunicorn do not prevent it and leave Allura vulnerable.
Affected vendor
Apache
Affected product
Allura
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2018-02-06

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 high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 3.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-1299

  • Confirm whether Apache Allura is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-1299.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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