Critical severity · published May 2, 2019
CVE-2018-16716
A path traversal vulnerability exists in viewcgi.c in the 2.0.7 through 2.2.26 legacy versions of the NCBI ToolBox, which may result in reading of arbitrary files (i.e.,…
9.1
CVSS
8.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A path traversal vulnerability exists in viewcgi.c in the 2.0.7 through 2.2.26 legacy versions of the NCBI ToolBox, which may result in reading of arbitrary files (i.e., significant information disclosure) or file deletion via the nph-viewgif.cgi query string.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)8.6% · higher than 95% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NT
Ncbi Toolbox · Nih
2.0.7 through 2.2.26 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16716
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16716
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/grymer/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-16716.md
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