CVE-2018-8819

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-06-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-611

Description

An XXE issue was discovered in Automated Logic Corporation (ALC) WebCTRL Versions 6.0, 6.1 and 6.5. An unauthenticated attacker could enter malicious input to WebCTRL and a weakly configured XML parser will allow the application to disclose full file contents from the underlying web server OS via the "X-Wap-Profile" HTTP header.

Affected products

Carrier Automatedlogic Webctrl: 6.0, 6.1, 6.5

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148126/WebCTRL-Out-Of-Band-XML-Injection.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jun/21
https://hateshape.github.io/general/2018/06/07/CVE-2018-8819.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148126/WebCTRL-Out-Of-Band-XML-Injection.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jun/21
https://hateshape.github.io/general/2018/06/07/CVE-2018-8819.html

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