CVE-2017-12815

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-03-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Analysis of the Bomgar Remote Support Portal JavaStart.jar Applet 52790 and earlier revealed that it is vulnerable to a path traversal vulnerability. The archive can be downloaded from a given Bomgar Remote Support Portal deployment at https://domain/api/content/JavaStart.jar and is callable from an arbitrary website using <object> and/or <appletHTML> tags. Successful exploitation results in file creation/modification/deletion in the operating system and with privileges of the user that ran the Java applet.

Affected products

Bomgar Remote Support: all versions

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/541885/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/541885/100/0/threaded

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