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CVE-2018-6885

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• 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: 2019-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

An issue was discovered in MicroStrategy Web Services (the Microsoft Office plugin) before 10.4 Hotfix 7, and before 10.11. The vulnerability is unauthenticated and leads to access to the asset files with the MicroStrategy user privileges. (This includes the credentials to access the admin dashboard which may lead to RCE.) The path traversal is located in a SOAP request in the web service component.

Affected products

• Microstrategy Web Services: before 10.4; from 10.5 before 10.11; 10.4, 10.4-hotfix_1, 10.4-hotfix_2, 10.4-hotfix_3, 10.4-hotfix_4, 10.4-hotfix_5 (+1) — fixed in 10.11, 10.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Microstrategy Web Services 10.11, 10.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://community.microstrategy.com/s/article/Web-Services-Security-Vulnerability
• https://community.microstrategy.com/s/article/Web-Services-Security-Vulnerability

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