THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-20183
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2019-20183

Employee Records System vulnerability

CVSS
7.2
EPSS
7.6%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
uploadimage.php in Employee Records System 1.0 allows upload and execution of arbitrary PHP code because file-extension validation is only on the client side. The attacker can modify global.js to allow the .php extension.
Affected vendor
Employee Records System Project
Affected product
Employee Records System
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-434 — Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
Published
2020-01-09

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 7.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-20183

  • Confirm whether Employee Records System Project Employee Records System is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-20183.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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