CVE-2017-18001 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2017-12-31

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: 20.8% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:trustwave:secure_web_gateway:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.2085.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
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/

History

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Subscriptions

Trustwave Secure Web Gateway

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-12-31T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T21:06:49.924Z

Reserved: 2017-12-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-18001

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-12-31T19:29:00.193

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-18001

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-306

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