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CVE-2018-15705

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 12.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-10-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

WADashboard API in Advantech WebAccess 8.3.1 and 8.3.2 allows remote authenticated attackers to write or overwrite any file on the filesystem due to a directory traversal vulnerability in the writeFile API. An attacker can use this vulnerability to remotely execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• Advantech WebAccess: 8.3.1, 8.3.2

References

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45774/
• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2018-35
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45774/
• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2018-35

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