CVE-2018-12999

Manageengine Desktop Central vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

8.6%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

Incorrect Access Control in AgentTrayIconServlet in Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central 10.0.255 allows attackers to delete certain files on the web server without login by sending a specially crafted request to the server with a computerName=../ substring to the /agenttrayicon URI.

Affected vendor

Zohocorp

Affected product

Manageengine Desktop Central

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2018-06-29

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 integrity.

Its EPSS score of 8.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-12999

Confirm whether Zohocorp Manageengine Desktop Central is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-12999.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

How ThreatPort helps with CVE-2018-12999

ThreatPort's external attack surface scanner checks your internet-facing assets — agentlessly, from the outside in — for the exposed services and versions that CVE-2018-12999 affects, then prioritises the finding by real risk using CISA KEV and FIRST.org EPSS.

Run a free external exposure scan

Are you exposed to CVE-2018-12999?

Run an instant, non-intrusive external scan to check your attack surface for CVE-2018-12999.

Start free scan

No credit card. Agentless.

Related vulnerabilities

Quicktime vulnerability

HIGH

CVE-2007-0528

Pa168 Chipset vulnerability