CVE-2018-6885

moderate-risk
Published 2019-05-14

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.56% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
9
CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (8)

Web Services
Web Services
Web Services
Web Services
Web Services
Web Services
Web Services
Web Services

Affected Vendors

Microstrategy

References (2)

Vendor Advisory https://community.microstrategy.com/s/article/Web-Services-Security-Vulnerabilit...
Vendor Advisory https://community.microstrategy.com/s/article/Web-Services-Security-Vulnerabilit...
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal
Exposure 14/34 · Moderate