CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2019-8385

Concourse Matter Room vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
19.6%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
An issue was discovered in Thomson Reuters Desktop Extensions 1.9.0.358. An unauthenticated directory traversal and local file inclusion vulnerability in the ThomsonReuters.Desktop.Service.exe and ThomsonReuters.Desktop.exe allows a remote attacker to list or enumerate sensitive contents of files via a \.. to port 6677. Additionally, this could allow for privilege escalation by dumping the affected machine's SAM and SYSTEM database files, as well as remote code execution.
Affected vendor
Thomsonreuters
Affected product
Concourse Matter Room
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2019-06-05

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, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 19.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-8385

  • Confirm whether Thomsonreuters Concourse Matter Room is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-8385.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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