HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2018-5340

Manageengine Desktop Central vulnerability

CVSS
7.2
EPSS
5.2%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
An issue was discovered in Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central 10.0.124 and 10.0.184: database access using a superuser account (specifically, an account with permission to write to the filesystem via SQL queries).
Affected vendor
Zohocorp
Affected product
Manageengine Desktop Central
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2018-04-18

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 5.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-5340

  • 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-2018-5340.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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