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CVE-2017-18001

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 14.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-12-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-306

Description

Trustwave Secure Web Gateway (SWG) through 11.8.0.27 allows remote attackers to append an arbitrary public key to the device's SSH Authorized Keys data, and consequently obtain remote root access, via the publicKey parameter to the /sendKey URI.

Affected products

• Trustwave Secure Web Gateway: through 11.8.0.27

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Dec/88
• https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3550
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44047/
• https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/Trustwave-Software-Updates/Important-Security-Update-for-Trustwave-Secure-Web-Gateway/
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Dec/88
• https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3550
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44047/
• https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/Trustwave-Software-Updates/Important-Security-Update-for-Trustwave-Secure-Web-Gateway/

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