CVE-2008-2015

CRITICAL 9.3CVE-2008-2015 · Published 30/04/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-2015 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability affecting appscan (watchfire).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 8.3%, higher than 95.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
appscan watchfire	`= 7.0`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple absolute path traversal vulnerabilities in certain ActiveX controls in WatchFire AppScan 7.0 allow remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the argument to the (1) CompactSave and (2) SaveSession method in one control, and the (3) saveRecordedExploreToFile method in a different control. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/28940 · Exploit
securitytracker.com/id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42077
exploit-db.com/exploits/5496

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