CVE-2015-7817

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-11-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the administration-panel web service in IBM System Networking Switch Center (SNSC) before 7.3.1.5 and Lenovo Switch Center before 8.1.2.0 allows remote attackers to obtain privileged-account access, and consequently provide FileReader.jsp input containing directory traversal sequences to read arbitrary text files, via a request to port 40080 or 40443.

Affected products

IBM System Networking Switch Center: through 7.3.1.4
Lenovo Switch Center: through 8.1.1.0

References

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-15-553/
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_2015_074
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-15-553/
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_2015_074

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