High severity · published Jul 10, 2018
CVE-2016-10726
The XMLUI feature in DSpace before 3.6, 4.x before 4.5, and 5.x before 5.5 allows directory traversal via the themes/ path in an attack with two or more arbitrary characters and a…
7.5
CVSS
2.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The XMLUI feature in DSpace before 3.6, 4.x before 4.5, and 5.x before 5.5 allows directory traversal via the themes/ path in an attack with two or more arbitrary characters and a colon before a pathname, as demonstrated by a themes/Reference/aa:etc/passwd URI.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.9% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DS
Dspace · Duraspace
before 3.6; 4.0 before 4.5; 5.0 before 5.5 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10726
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10726
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/tag/dspace-5.5
Patch
https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3094
Vendor Advisory
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/Release+Notes
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