High severity · published Feb 6, 2018
CVE-2018-1299
In Apache Allura before 1.8.0, unauthenticated attackers may retrieve arbitrary files through the Allura web application
7.5
CVSS
3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Apache Allura before 1.8.0, unauthenticated attackers may retrieve arbitrary files through the Allura web application. Some webservers used with Allura, such as Nginx, Apache/mod_wsgi or paster may prevent the attack from succeeding. Others, such as gunicorn do not prevent it and leave Allura vulnerable.
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)3.0% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AL
Allura · Apache
before 1.8.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1299
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1299
Vendor Advisory
https://allura.apache.org/posts/2018-allura-1.8.0.html
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b52069073cf3cb0f84c9e1e2b34d411fc163af39e4f3e50712ac8a4d%40%3Cdev.allura.apache.org%3E
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