CVE-2018-18552

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-10-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

ServersCheck Monitoring Software through 14.3.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (menu functionality loss) by creating an LNK file that points to a second LNK file, if this second LNK file is associated with a Start menu. Ultimately, this behavior comes from a Directory Traversal bug (via the sensor_details.html id parameter) that allows creating empty files in arbitrary directories.

Affected products

Serverscheck Monitoring Software: through 14.3.3

References

http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/CVE-2018-18552-SERVERSCHECK-MONITORING-SOFTWARE-ARBITRARY-FILE-WRITE-DOS.txt
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149907/ServersCheck-Monitoring-Software-14.3.3-Arbitrary-File-Write-DoS.html
http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/CVE-2018-18552-SERVERSCHECK-MONITORING-SOFTWARE-ARBITRARY-FILE-WRITE-DOS.txt
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149907/ServersCheck-Monitoring-Software-14.3.3-Arbitrary-File-Write-DoS.html

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