THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-1656
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2018-1656

Sdk vulnerability

CVSS
7.4
EPSS
4.5%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
The IBM Java Runtime Environment's Diagnostic Tooling Framework for Java (DTFJ) (IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition 6.0 , 7.0, and 8.0) does not protect against path traversal attacks when extracting compressed dump files. IBM X-Force ID: 144882.
Affected vendor
Ibm
Affected product
Sdk
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2018-08-20

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 high 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-2018-1656

  • Confirm whether Ibm Sdk is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-1656.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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